Published in Harvard Health Policy Review. July 2008
The U.S. and European political cultures are very different
I appreciate the invitation from the Harvard Health Policy Review to discuss the relationship between national health care systems and the policy process. (more…)
Vicenç Navarro, Marta Tur i Maria Freixanet. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Introducción
El gran dominio de las fuerzas conservadoras y liberales en los medios de información españoles explica que se reproduzcan interpretaciones de la realidad que nos rodea, que a base de repetirse se convierten en la “sabiduría convencional” del país. (more…)
A Counterpunch Special Report
Yes, We Can! Can We?
The Next Failure of Health Care Reform
By VINCENT NAVARRO
A major problem–if not the major problem–for many people living in the U.S. is the difficulty of accessing and paying for medical care when they are sick. For this reason, candidates in the presidential primaries of 2008–the Democrats more often than the Republicans–have been recounting stories about the health-related tragedies they have encountered in meetings with ordinary people around the country (an exercise conducted in the U.S. every four years, at presidential election time). (more…)
Published on Counterpunch, 2/13/08
I live on both sides of the Atlantic–part of the year in the where I was born. I had to leave Spain because of my active participation in the anti-fascist underground against the Franco dictatorship in the 1950s. I lived for a while in Sweden and Great Britain, and finally settled in the U.S.A., teaching (as I still do) at the Johns Hopkins University. I have been active in U.S. academic and political life for more than 35 years. I was senior advisor to Jesse Jackson Sr. during the Democratic Party primaries of 1984 and 1988. (more…)
Challenge/January–February 2008
Vincent Navarro and John Schmitt
Many obser vers argue that recent votes unfavorable to the European Union are the result of specific factors in each country. The authors argue there is a more central problem. The European social model has been seriously undermined, partly because of budgetary agreements of the EU and a zealous European Central Bank.
The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published June 4, 2008
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