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Universal coverage : the elusive quest for national health insurance
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Universal coverage : the elusive quest for national health insurance

Author: Rick Mayes
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
Series: Conversations in medicine and society
Edition/Format: Book : English : New edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rick Mayes
ISBN: 0472114573 9780472114573
OCLC Number: 56695951
Description: x, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction -- Critical juncture: health insurance subordinated to Social Security (1935) -- Diverging pathways: the aftermath of Social Security's passage (mid 1930s to 1950) -- Increasing returns: institutionalization of public and private pathways (early 1950s through early 1960s) -- Symbiotic attachment: "heath insurance through Social Security" (early 1960s through early 1970s) -- Incrementalism's consequences: rising costs, narrowing paths (1970s) -- Locked in and crowded out: entrenched paths and accumulated costs impede universal coverage (1980s and 1990s) -- Conclusion -- Epilogue, 2004.
Series Title: Conversations in medicine and society
Responsibility: Rick Mayes.
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