Jessica M. Mulligan
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Bruns’ research focuses on social inequalities and families, with particular attention to the health and economic consequences of adverse experiences that are disproportionately prevalent among low-income families and people of color. Her recent work examines the impact of family member incarceration on women's employment and substance use, the associations between multiple job holding and maternal and child well-being, and the health risks associated with exposure to community gun violence for adolescents.
Contributions
Why Americans Have a Love-Hate Relationship with Health Care Reform, So Far
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Publications
Argues that financial techniques obfuscate how much health care costs, foster widespread gaming of reimbursement systems that drives up prices, and “unpool” risk by devolving financial and moral responsibility for health care onto individual consumers
Traces the emergence of the term “young invincible” in health policy literature, the health insurance industry, and popular media.
Takes a genealogical and ethnographic approach to the problem of choice, arguing that what choice means has been reworked several times since health insurance first figured prominently in national debates about health reform.
Chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island.