Power, politics, and universal health care
Subtitle: the inside story of a century-long balttle
By: by Stuart H. Altman and David Shactman
Contributors: Shactman, David
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781616144562
Subjects: History, 21st Century; Health care reform; Health Policy; Health Care Reform; History, 20th Century; Politics; Medical policy; Universal Coverage; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nixon comes close : our plan looks like a slam dunk, but ends with just a dunk; title: Clinton chooses wrong : the colossal defeat of managed competition; title: The past foreshadows the present : early attempts with little success; title: The Hill-Burton program : how America's uninsured poor got a right to free hospital care; title: The three-layer cake : Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the epic battle to enact medicare; title: Oops! the brief life and death of medicare catastrophic; title: Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress : HIPAA and SCHIP add two more pieces to the puzzle; title: The unlikely saga of the medicare prescription drug benefit; title: Controlling health costs : many attempts but few successes; title: The last 20 years : health care spending keeps growing; title: Obama develops his plan; title: Early players and done deals; title: Baucus, Grassley, and the gang of six; title: The summer of death panels; title: The speaker carries the day; title: The Senate and the Christmas Eve health bill; title: Success at last; title: How he did it : a political strategy learned from history; title: The future is cost control.