Remedy and reaction [electronic resource] : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
Starr, Paul, 1949-
2011
RA395.A3 S768 2011eb
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Title
Remedy and reaction [electronic resource] : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
Author
Starr, Paul, 1949-
ISBN
9780300178449 (electronic book)
9780300171099
0300171099
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 324 p.)
Call Number
RA395.A3 S768 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.10973
Summary
"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.
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An uneasy victory
The making of a national impasse
A window for reform
Choices and vulnerabilities
The genealogy of health-care reform
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
Stumbling toward comprehensive reform
Political deadlock, 1969-1980
Political reversals, 1981-1990
The American path in health insurance
Frustrated ambitions, liberal and conservative
The shaping of the Clinton Health Plan, 1991-1993
A new framework
Clinton's decisions
Getting to no, 1994
The Democrats' disorder
The big turnabout
The collapse of Congressional compromise
Why no reform?
Comes the counterrevolution, 1995-2006
Gingrich and the end of entitlements
From bold leaps to baby steps
A Republican window
Return to crisis
Rollercoaster
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
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)
The Affordable Care Act as public philosophy
Fairness and equality
Responsibility and freedom
Federalism and finance
Health and the public household
Reform's uncertain fate
Political backlash and the courts
The peculiar struggle.

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