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Remedy and reaction : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
"In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues.Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990s--and of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt Romney's reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of
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- ISBN: 9780300171099
- ISBN: 0300171099
- Physical Description: xii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kansas City Public Library | 362.10973 STARR 2011 (Text) | 0001001797347 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
