What is it about?
A critique of the universal coverage policy widely disseminated these days as a solution to increase health coverage.
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Why is it important?
Because many people bought into this new agenda without understanding the implications of it.
Perspectives
People who want single payer or health for all should be aware of the limitations of universal health coverage as the same as people's right to health. This article does a historical review of the concepts and shows that the neoliberal agenda for health is not at all the same as guaranteeing health care for all.
Dr. Eduardo Siqueira
University of Massachusetts Boston
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This page is a summary of: Neoliberalism Redux: The Global Health Policy Agenda and the Politics of Cooptation in Latin America and Beyond, Development and Change, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12247.
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