September 1, 2022
Medical student Carlo Bosques describes the under-appreciated history of health care in Puerto Rico, which enjoyed a 26-year increase in life expectancy from the 1940s to the 1970s, when a robust public health infrastructure was firmly in place.
“The vast majority of health care services were delivered under [an integrated, single-payer like] system,” he says. “It was very successful.”
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