In Health Care in World Cities, co-authors Michael Gusmano a Hastings Center scholar, along with Victor Rodwin and Daniel Weisz, “have boldly undertaken an innovative level of comparative health systems analysis in this well-written, creative, and rigorous book,” according to a review in the Journal of the American Medical Association. David Chinitz, of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Hebrew University’s School of Public Health, writes, “Aside from providing the refreshing insight that health policy, like politics, is always local, the authors—who are well-versed in national health policies—manage to clarify how local health systems are influenced by these national policies.”
“National policies that reduce financial barriers to health care and place greater emphasis on primary care improve access and reduce inequities, even in world cities that are marked by vast inequalities in wealth,” says Gusmano. “The failure to address financial barriers to care in the U.S. has resulted in thousands of premature deaths and hospitalizations that could have been avoided.”