Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Individual  Groups  Society  grade: A plus(10)  Yale University (Yale department of sociology)  course: Economic sociology  36 entries in the bibliography  language: English  abstract: How could it be that the most powerful and richest nation in the world  the United States is discussing about the same failures of the health care system for decades? How a good health care system might look like and what challenges are to be overcome are additional questions this paper seeks to answer