Dead on Arrival : : The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America / / Colin Gordon.
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of politic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
60 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Why No National Health Insurance in the United States?
- 1 The Political Economy of American Health Care: An Overview, 1910-2000
- 2 Bargaining for Health: Private Health Insurance and Public Policy
- 3 Between Contract and Charity: Health Care and the Dilemmas of Social Insurance
- 4 Socialized Medicine and Other Afflictions: The Political Culture of the Health Debate
- 5 Health Care in Black and White: Race, Region, and Health Politics
- 6 Private Interests and Public Policy: Health Care's Corporate Compromise
- 7 Silenced Majority: American Politics and the Dilemmas of Health Reform
- Conclusion The Past and Future of Health Politics
- Archival Sources
- Index
- Backmatter