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September 19, 2013
Location: CG 361
Address: 14 Queens Park Crescent West
Toronto, ON M5S CA
The prevailing view of the U.S. health care system is that it is predominantly private and thus exceptional among advanced nations, and rooted in classic American liberal ideology. Grogan marshals evidence to show that, on the contrary, a unique American ideology of “inverted” liberalism has allowed the state to become the predominant funder of the health care system while successfully hiding the role of the state, presenting the illusion of minimal government, and leaving no one accountable for the highly inequitable distributional effects of the system. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) perpetuates this illusion.
Colleen M. Grogan is a Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, Chair of the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy, and Co-Chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies.
Professor Grogan is currently working on two book projects. The first is an empirical study of the effort to develop a participatory advisory board to discuss the design and implementation of health care reform for poor families in the state of Connecticut. The second book is a political history of the Medicaid program – our largest health care program in the U.S. – which attempts to explain changes in legislation and political discourse over time, examines policy feedbacks within the program, and assesses views about Medicaid’s potential to expand coverage to other groups in the population.
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