Health security for all : dreams of universal health care in America

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Health security for all : dreams of universal health care in America

Alan Derickson

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy-universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and idealists across the political spectrum.

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1. A Fertile and Lively Cause of Poverty Chapter 2. One of the Most Radical Moves Ever Made Chapter 3. No Poor-Man's System Chapter 4. American Democratic Medicine Chapter 5. Well on the Way Chapter 6. As Much a Birthright as Education Epilogue: Alone Among the Developed Nations Acknowledgements Notes Index

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