Governing health
Subtitle: the politics of health policy
By: William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert
Contributors: Weissert, Carol S.; Weissert, Carol S.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781421406206; 9781421406213
Subjects: Health Policy; Politics
Description: Governing Health examines health care policy from a political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments help define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions. William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert provide a highly readable and comprehensive synthesis of political science research on how government and private institutions affect the policy process. Extensive reviews of the policies that have governed health care since Lyndon Johnson's administration are capped off with a prognosis for the future. Updates to the fourth edition of Governing Health include * new examples and theory perspectives * recent statistics * discussion of the 2010 Obama health reform.
Notes: Carol S. Weissert's name appears first in earlier ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Congress; title: The presidency; title: Interest groups; title: Bureaucracy; title: States and health care reform; title: The policy process; title: Problem to policy.