Lecture: “Why the United States has no national health insurance”

Listen to sociologist Jill Quadagno’s April 12 lecture about the political, economic and historical reasons behind America’s lack of a national health insurance program.

Quadagano is the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Social Gerontology and professor of sociology, Florida State University. Her lecture was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Medicine, Health and Society.

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