The American health system, decentralized and unequal, must now catch up with the delay in managing the coronavirus pandemic. The exceptional measures voted in Congress can, however, help it to cope, explains Élisa Chelle, professor of political science at Paris Nanterre University and author of Understanding health policy in the United States *.
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LE FIGARO. - Is the American healthcare system armed to cope with a massive influx of coronavirus patients?
Élisa Chelle. - Difficult to speak of the American health system in the singular. We are the opposite of French centralization, it is a very fragmented system with very diverse actors: private for-profit hospitals which operate like businesses (they were 983 in 2015), private hospitals for non-profit (2845) and public hospitals (around 1250) where veterans and staff of the Ministry of Defense are cared for free. Without forgetting the
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