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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Quadagno, Jill S. One nation, uninsured. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004022644 (OCoLC)56608290 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jill S Quadagno |
ISBN: | 9780198036388 0198036388 1280838418 9781280838415 9781429438308 1429438304 9786610838417 6610838410 9780199944026 0199944024 9780195160390 0195160398 |
OCLC Number: | 79860220 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Doctors' politics and the red menace -- Organized labor's health benefits -- Provider sovereignty and civil rights -- Don't rock the boat -- Cost containment versus national health insurance -- The revolt of the corporate purchaser -- The insurers' triumphant -- Why the US has no national health insurance and what can be done about it. |
Responsibility: | Jill Quadagno. |
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Abstract:
Reveals the roots of America's failure to address the health care need of its citizens. In a comprehensive history of the failed efforts to enact universal insurance from the 1940s to the 1990s, the author shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance has met with fierce attacks by stakeholders.
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