John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

How

can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the

highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its

peers? In America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), Dr. John E. McDonough offers a

compelling explanation for this troubling puzzle of contemporary US life

and shows that this reality did not arise by accident.

Beginning

in the later twentieth century, a powerful political and economic

philosophy began to reshape the United States and continues to mold

the institutions that govern health care, insurance coverage, and

population health. Across four decades, the rise of neoliberal thinking