Futurity April 1, 2020
Sandra Knispel-U. Rochester

It’s time to rethink the relationship between employment and health care in the United States, a historian and public health expert argues.

Mical Raz is a professor in public policy and health, an assistant professor of history, and a board-certified internist at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She is the author of The Lobotomy Letters: the Making of American Psychosurgery (University of Rochester Press, 2015) and What’s Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty. (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Here, Raz explains why it’s time to uncouple the link between health insurance and work in America:

Over 3.2 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week, a 3 million increase from the previous week. Yet...

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