Journal Article

21st-century capitalism: structural challenges for universal health care

Sell, Susan K

2019

نظرة عامة

The structural perspective outlined here sheds light on some of the fundamental challenges involved in achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) in this twenty-first-century era of trade and financialized capitalism. This commentary explores connections between the structure of twenty-first-century capitalism and challenges to achieving UHC, discussing three features of today's capitalism: financialized capitalism; trade, intangibles and global value chains; and inequality (as exacerbated by the first two features). The final section discusses the various opportunities for reform to facilitate UHC-from tinkering with the status quo, to deeper regulatory reform and fundamental structural change.

• الناشر: BioMed Central,BMC
• موضوع: Austerity policy / Bailouts / Budgets / Capitalism / Consumption / Economic concentration / Economic development / Financial instruments / Financialized capitalism / GDP / Global economy / Global supply chains / Gross Domestic Product / Health care / Health care access / Health care policy / History, 21st Century / Humans / Inequality / Intellectual property / Investment banking / Labor market / Profits / Regulatory reform / Relationship banking / Stockholders / Tax evasion / Tax reform / Tax revenues / Universal Health Care / Welfare