'Hospital City, Health Care Nation'

'Hospital City, Health Care Nation'

A new book by Guian McKee, co-director of the Miller Center's Health Care Policy Program, recasts the story of the health care system by focusing on the role of hospitals in American communities

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About the author

GUIAN MCKEE is an associate professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center and co-director of the Health Care Policy Project. He received a PhD in American history at the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2002, and is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2008). At the Miller Center, McKee works extensively with the Presidential Recordings Program. His research focuses on how federal policy, especially in the executive branch, plays out at the local level in American communities.