Life-and-Death Decisions: Why Some States Vote to Block Health Care Reform

Jonathan Metzl, author of “Dying of Whiteness,” discusses how racial resentment has fueled a backlash against health care policy designed to include immigrants and minorities—with deadly consequences for working-class white Americans.

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