| Description |
429 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-406) and index. |
| Contents |
Nixon comes close : our plan looks like a slam dunk, but ends with just a dunk -- Clinton chooses wrong : the colossal defeat of managed competition -- The past foreshadows the present : early attempts with little success -- The Hill-Burton program : how America's uninsured poor got a right to free hospital care -- The three-layer cake : Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the epic battle to enact medicare -- Oops! the brief life and death of medicare catastrophic -- Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress : HIPAA and SCHIP add two more pieces to the puzzle -- The unlikely saga of the medicare prescription drug benefit -- Controlling health costs : many attempts but few successes -- The last 20 years : health care spending keeps growing -- Obama develops his plan -- Early players and done deals -- Baucus, Grassley, and the gang of six -- The summer of death panels -- The speaker carries the day -- The Senate and the Christmas Eve health bill -- Success at last -- How he did it : a political strategy learned from history -- The future is cost control. |
| Summary |
Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within historical perspective. Altman was a key participant at critical junctures in the history of health reform. |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- United States.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Health Care Reform -- history -- United States.
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Health Policy -- United States.
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History, 20th Century -- United States.
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History, 21st Century -- United States.
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Politics -- United States.
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Universal Health Insurance -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Shactman, David.
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| ISBN |
9781616144562 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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1616144564 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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