@article{799674,
      recid = {799674},
      author = {Schimmel, Noam,},
      title = {Presidential healthcare reform rhetoric : continuity,  change & contested values from Truman to Obama.},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by  the four Democratic presidents, Truman, Johnson, Clinton  and Obama, who tried to expand access to and affordability  of healthcare in the United States. It considers how they  made such arguments, the ethics they advanced, and the  vision of America they espoused. The author combines  rhetoric analysis, policy analysis, and policy history to  illuminate the dynamic nature of the way American  presidents have imagined the moral and social bonds of the  American people and their exhortations for governance and  policy to reflect and honor these bonds and obligations.  Schimmel illustrates how Democratic presidents invoke  positive liberty and communitarian values in direct  challenge to opposing conservative ideologies of limited  government and prioritization of negative liberty and their  increasing prominence in the post-Reagan era. He also draws  attention to the ethical and policy compromises entailed by  the usage of specific rhetorical strategies and their  resulting discursive effects.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/799674},
}