...This chapter looks to San Diego as a constructed “illegal” space where local and national anxieties about immigration come together to push (seemingly) new initiatives to dismantle health care for low-income immigrant workers. The U.S./Mexico border allows for an extranational space...

...This chapter explores the treatments developed during a period of innovation that followed the Second World War. The discoveries of this period revealed a constant dialectical tension in the history of mental health care: between those who seek technical remedies for psychiatric problems, and those...

...The introductory chapter establishes the existence of a Third Net and its role as a “dumping ground” undergirding the formal health care system. While scholarship abounds in describing particular facets of migrant health care, and the larger health care safety net system, this chapter extends...

...The conclusion takes stock of the lessons learned about the Third Net and outlines their vision of an alternative health care infrastructure that re-imagines what care is and could be. This chapter reiterates the fact that the existence of the Third Net is evidence of the failures of the formal U.S...

...This chapter explores how adult children of Korean immigrants navigate health care options for their parents, paying attention to the personal limitations and challenges that they face in caring for chronically ill or frail elders. The lives of Korean immigrants are intertwined with those...

... caring for themselves and others as their aging parents grow more reliant on others. Furthermore, it explores how the role of Korean Americans as an intergenerational bridge could be extended to supporting a social reform agenda focused on aging and health care. The chapter concludes with a discussion...

... the first? It provides a brief narrative of popular mobilization against reform of the great distributive systems with two “case studies” of the history of successful resistance against the health-care reform in Hungary and Poland. It considers possible reasons for the depth and violence of recent popular...

... for the moral and social criteria that people actually employ when making decisions about their health care. Third, the able-bodied, individualistic assumptions underwriting the notion of the health care consumer are out of place in describing how people react to and experience illness, disability...

...This chapter examines the role of quality measurement within market-based health policies. Quantifying quality is supposed to unite regulators, health plans, and health care consumers in a circuit of constant improvement. Additionally, the production of quality data is important in the Medicare...

...This chapter explores the contradicting nature of private companies with regards to protecting their beneficiaries, highlighting that the companies themselves violate one's rights through their complaints system. In a market-based health care system, consumers are supposed to express...

...Susan J. Shaw’s chapter examines the management and regulation of low-income residents' access to and coverage for medications in Massachusetts. This chapter shows how Medicaid patients experience accountability in health care as they struggle to pay out-of-pocket costs for their medications...

... 1800s and early 1900s such as railroads and oil companies. The chapter considers the benefits of market competition to mental health care as compared to the problems caused by monopolistic mental health care. It proposes a mental health antitrust law that would help improve the quality of care for all...

... care. It also calls on policy makers in the public and private mental health sectors to have a dialogue with consumers and advocates so as to improve mental health services. Finally, it evaluates an integrated versus “carved-out” mental health care system. Achieving the Promise President’s New Freedom...

... of conflict of interest. However, this chapter argues that entrepreneurial health activism can further exacerbate existing inequalities in the distribution of health care resources. entrepreneurial health activism health activism intellectual property IP legitimacy United States authenticity Brown Phil...

... of the health care safety net. Positive interactions with health care bureaucracies made uninsured Latinos feel more comfortable with applying for Medicaid. In contrast, the long waits or rude treatment Latinos endured when interacting with bureaucracies led to avoidance of the safety net altogether. avoidance...

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... of a regional future, as evidenced by the outsized role of the prison in local residents’ expressions of hope for education, health care, and recreation. The chapter examines what the prospect of a political and economic realignment around incarceration means for the county and considers the racialized...

..., judges, and juries. Health care professionals wield tremendous power in deciding when to disclose confidential patient information to law enforcement if they believe that a patient, especially a pregnant woman, has engaged in “risky” behavior. negligence “the reasonable person ” risk perception...

...Immigration and health are two of the most contentious issues facing policy makers today. Policies that relate to both issues—to the health of newcomers—often reflect misimpressions about immigrants, their health, and their impact on health care systems. Although immigrants are typically younger...

... African sex workers, including police abuse, denial of access to justice, client abuse, lack of labor rights, and health care discrimination. The fact that sex work is illegal pushes sex workers underground, with little to no access to labor rights protections, health care services, and other social...