The healthcare debate
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The healthcare debate
(Historical guides to controversial issues in America)
Greenwood, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With the debate over health care consuming the nation, this timely book looks at the evolution of healthcare policy in the United States throughout its history.
Concise, authoritative, and unbiased, The Healthcare Debate provides meaningful context for thinking about one of the most controversial public policy issues the United States faces. It traces the evolution of the argument over the government's role in healthcare financing and delivery since the early 1800s, with an emphasis on the major reform efforts since the mid-20th century.
Following the complex dynamics of public health policy across U.S. history, The Healthcare Debate brings together a wide range of voices on the subject—presidents, policymakers, reformers, lobbyists, and everyday citizens. Each of its eight chronologically organized chapters focuses on the battle over government involvement in healthcare in a specific era, drawing on historic documents and the latest retrospective research. With President Obama making healthcare reform his top domestic priority in his first year in office, this remarkable new book could not be more timely.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in America?
1Setting the Stage: Uncertainty in Early Medicine and Government Roles
2Not Quite Catching the Wave: Health Care and the Early-Twentieth-Century Social Insurance Movement
3Policy Growth without a Plan or Philosophy: The 1950s and Early 1960s
4Enacting Medicare and Medicaid
5Deepening Trouble with the Healthcare System
6The Rise and Fall of the Clinton Plan
7One Piece at a Time?
8Struggling toward a Healthcare System
Appendix 1: Timeline of Significant Events in American Health Care
Appendix 2: Annotated List of Further Readings: Selected Topics
Bibliography
Index
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