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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Starr |
ISBN: | 9780300171099 0300171099 |
OCLC Number: | 711045643 |
Description: | xii, 324 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: -- An uneasy victory: The making of a national impasse ; A window for reform ; Choices and vulnerabilities -- pt. I. The genealogy of health-care reform: -- 1. Evolution through defeat: Progressive health insurance, 1915-1919 ; The New Deal and national health insurance, 1935-1950 ; The growth of the protected public, 1950-1965 -- 2. Stumbling toward comprehensive reform: Political deadlock, 1969-1980 ; Political reversals, 1981-1990 ; The American path in health insurance -- pt. II. Frustrated ambitions, liberal and conservative: -- 3. The shaping of the Clinton Health Plan, 1991-1993: A new framework ; Clinton's decisions -- 4. Getting to no, 1994: The Democrats' disorder ; The big turnabout ; The collapse of Congressional compromise ; Why no reform? -- 5. Comes the counterrevolution, 1995-2006: Gingrich and the end of entitlements ; From bold leaps to baby steps ; A Republican window ; Return to crisis -- pt. III. Rollercoaster: -- 6. The rise of a reform consensus, 2006-2008: Romney and the Massachusetts model ; Toward minimally invasive reform ; Making 2008 a health-care election ; Prepare to launch -- 7. Breaking through, 2009-2010: Health care first ; Bipartisanship in one party ; Reaction and resolve ; Obama and the rollercoaster to reform ; Why health-care reform passed (and climate legislation didn't) -- 8. The Affordable Care Act as public philosophy: Fairness and equality ; Responsibility and freedom ; Federalism and finance ; Health and the public household -- 9. Reform's uncertain fate ; Political backlash and the courts ; The peculiar struggle. |
Responsibility: | Paul Starr. |
Abstract:
A leading expert explains how Americans trapped themselves in a costly and complicated health system--and came to fight so bitterly about changing it.
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"None of the numerous other histories of US health care policy develops these themes in such an illuminating fashion. . . . [an] excellent, cogently argued work." Samuel Y./i>--Samuel Y. Sessions "Journal of the American Medical Association "" Read more...
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