# Paul Starr

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Episode 23 How The American Healthcare System Arose Part II

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I try to be honest about a theory or belief about how complex systems interact and grow becomes apparent as I learn from Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. It is a way I hold myself accountable and invite my readers and listeners to …

Episode 24 How The American Healthcare System Arose Part III

Episode 24 of Butterfly Arose where I talk about the history of medical care in America from the depression and up until 1981 when Paul Starr wrote the first edition. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

Robert Kuttner on Winning the Arguments, Losing the Politics — and What Comes Next

In a wide-ranging conversation with Micah Sifry, longtime political columnist Kuttner takes stock of what went wrong, why the guardrails may be holding, and what it will actually take to rebuild democracy from what he sees as the wreckage of the neoliberal era. There's a particular kind of intelle…

Episode 25 The Social Transformation of American Healthcare Since 2016

In this Episode of Butterfly Arose I complete my reporting on the 1982 edition of Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. I include articles on how the system has evolved since he wrote his book and give my own thoughts on what might guide changes in the system. As a bon…

Episode 25 The Social Transformation of American Healthcare Since 2016

In this Episode of Butterfly Arose I complete my reporting on the 1982 edition of Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. I include articles on how the system has evolved since he wrote his book and give my own thoughts on what might guide changes in the system. Get full a…

What Trump Really Meant? Make America White Again!

Thank you to everyone who tuned into this video live! In this bonus episode, recorded yesterday as a Substack Live, Princeton sociologist Paul Starr and I discuss his new article in The American Prospect, “Stephen Miller’s Impossible America: The ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment w…

A Noble Profession Tries to Get Paid: The Historical Roots of a Modern Healthcare Crisis

This is Episode 2 of our series on health policy and economics for doctors! This episode is about laying the historical groundwork for the rest of this season, because so many of our modern healthcare problems can be traced back to decisions made WAY in the past that set us on this course. In this …

Merchants of Death: The Men Who Killed Healthcare in America.

The United States doesn’t have a comprehensive healthcare “system.” It has a patchwork of coverage options that come with heavy price tags and complicated processes. Consistent GOP attacks have made the entire framework untenable, and the results speak for themselves. Healthcare coverage is deterio…

Prior auths, step therapy, and AI: how doctors lose their professional sovreignty

Every week, doctors spend 13 hours fighting insurance companies just for permission to treat their patients — and now, under a new Medicare pilot, some of those decisions are being handed to AI. In this episode, Liz digs into prior authorization: where it came from, how it quietly stripped doctors …