@article{433894,
      recid = {433894},
      author = {Starr, Paul,},
      title = {Remedy and reaction the peculiar American struggle over  health care reform / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven [Conn.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 324 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {"In no other country has health care served as such a  volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has  endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance,  and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle  is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the  United States became so stubbornly different in health  care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of  the issues.Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings  to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that  the United States ensnared itself in a trap through  policies that satisfied enough of the public and so  enriched the health-care industry as to make the system  difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the  rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early  1990s--and of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed.  And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt Romney's  reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and  then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama  and the explosive reaction they elicited from  conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the  author offers exactly what is needed as the debate  continues--a penetrating account of how health care became  such treacherous terrain in American politics"--Provided by  publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433894},
}