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Title Unequal coverage : the experience of health care reform in the United States / edited by Jessica M. Mulligan and Heide Castañeda.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2018]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.10425 U56U    Check Shelf
Description xi, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series Anthropologies of American medicine: culture, power, and practice
Anthropologies of American medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Section I. Inclusions and exclusions. Stratification by immigration status: contradictory exclusion and inclusion after health care reform / Heide Castañeda ; Stratified access: seeking dialysis care in the borderlands / Milena Andrea Melo ; Stratification and "Universality": immigrants and barriers to coverage in Massachusetts / Tiffany D. Joseph ; Stratification through Medicaid: public prenatal care in New York City / Elise Andaya -- Section II. Implementation along the red/blue divide. Segmented risks: eligibility and resentment on insurance exchanges / Jessica M. Mulligan ; Uninsured in America: before and after the ACA / Susan Sered ; "Texans don't want health insurance": social class and the ACA in a red state / Emily K. Brunson -- Section III. The ACA's accountability contradictions. The responsibility to maintain health: pharmaceutical regulation of chronic disease among the urban poor / Susan J. Shaw ; Outsourcing responsibility: state stewardship of behavioral health care services / Cathleen E. Willging and Elise M. Trott ; Increasing access, increasing responsibility: activating the newly insured / Mary Alice and Richard Wright.
Summary The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years since its enactment, some 20 million uninsured Americans gained access to coverage. And yet, the law remained unpopular and politically vulnerable. While the ACA extended social protections to some groups, its implementation was troubled and the act itself created new forms of exclusion. Access to affordable coverage options were highly segmented by state of residence, income, and citizenship status. Unequal Coverage documents the everyday experiences of individuals and families across the U.S. as they attempted to access coverage and care in the five years following the passage of the ACA. It argues that while the Affordable Care Act succeeded in expanding access to care, it did so unevenly, ultimately also generating inequality and stratification. The volume investigates the outcomes of the ACA in communities throughout the country and provides up-close, intimate portraits of individuals and groups trying to access and provide health care for both the newly insured and those who remain uncovered. The contributors use the ACA as a lens to examine more broadly how social welfare policies in a multiracial and multiethnic democracy purport to be inclusive while simultaneously embracing certain kinds of exclusions.
Subject Health care reform -- United States.
Medical policy -- United States.
Medical care -- United States.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Health care reform. (OCoLC)fst00952850
Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Health Care Reform. (DNLM)D018166
Delivery of Health Care. (DNLM)D003695
United States. (DNLM)D014481
Added Author Mulligan, Jessica M., editor.
Castañeda, Heide, editor.
Standard No. 99976132602
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1479848735 (paperback ;) (alkaline paper)
9781479897001 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
1479897000 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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