The author says pharmaceutical companies are deeply entrenched in a system of racial capitalism that rests on whiteness. The U.S. spends almost 20% of its GDP on healthcare, which is way above any other country and our health outcomes are the worst among industrialized countries," she said. "There's just no other way of improving our health statistics"
Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing their book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America.
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