Title: Chronic politics : health care security from FDR to George W. Bush /
Authors: Funigiello, Philip J.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Insurance, Health; Health Policy; Health Care Reform; Government Programs; National Health Programs; Public Policy; Health Care Reform history; Health Policy history; Government Programs history; Insurance, Health history; National Health Programs history; National health insurance United States History.; Health insurance United States History.; Medical policy United States History; Social policy United States History.; Medical care Political aspects United States History.; Health care reform United States History.; National Health Programs history United States.; Government Programs history United States.; Health Care Reform history United States.; Health Policy history United States.; Insurance, Health history United States.; Public Policy United States.; United States; United States Social policy.
Abstract: "Few domestic issues dominate today's headlines as much as the high cost of health care. Despite this media attention and a litany of election-year debates over health care funding, some 45 million Americans remain without adequate health insurance. Philip Funigiello chronicles the contentious political history behind this state of affairs, from the New Deal to the present.".
Contents: Beginnings: the federal government and health security -- Hopes deferred: Congress, war, and the end of the New Deal -- Health, security, and the Cold War, 1945-1951 -- The politics of incrementalism, 1951-1960 -- Medicare: a congressional quagmire -- Crossing an ideological rubicon -- No permanent solutions: health care in crisis -- Health care reform: the politics of neglect and rediscovery -- "Competition under a cap": the Clinton task force -- Clinton, Congress, and the great health care war -- Unfinished business.