Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).

• 1. Class, Power, Health and Healthcare2. The Medical Miracle?3. To Live and Die in 19th Century America: A Class Based Explanation of the Rise and Fall of Infectious Disease4. Death in Our Times: The Exceptional Class Context for Chronic Disease in America5. The Political Economy of US Healthcare: The Medical Industrial Complex6. Three Easy LessonsNotesIndex

'A fascinating account of how the strength of corporate interests and the relative weakness of unions have given the United States a bloated and inefficient health care system'