Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Marcella Alsan - Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Stanford Health Policy Seminar: Marcella Alsan - Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Friday, October 24, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
(Pacific)

 

Health Policy Seminars are hybrid events open to the Stanford community. For more information, please reach out to healthpolicy-comms@stanford.edu

Encina Commons, Room 119
Department of Health Policy/Center for Health Policy   
615 Crothers Way, Stanford

Lunch will be provided

Marcella Alsan

Marcella is a physician-economist studying the economics of health inequality domestically and internationally. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Literature and Co-Chair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, ad co-directs the Health Inequality Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

Talk title: Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association (with Yousra Neberai)