Georgia State University November 12, 2021
Law professor Erin Fuse Brown studies the many ways in which Americans are ill-served by the nation’s healthcare system. But change could be on the horizon.
Healthcare in America is largely an unmitigated mess. Even with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more than 27 million Americans still lack health insurance. Getting access to care often means navigating a maddeningly circuitous and opaque bureaucracy. And even for the insured, medical treatments can be wildly expensive, leading people to take on debt or even declare bankruptcy.
“The problem with our healthcare is it’s extremely fragmented, a patchwork of many different systems,” says Erin Fuse Brown, associate professor of law at Georgia State University and director of the Center for Law, Health &...