Remedy and reaction : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
Remedy and reaction : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
Remedy and reaction : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
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N362.10973/79
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English
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Physical content
xii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
An uneasy victory ; The making of a national impasse ; A window for reform ; Choices and vulnerabilities -- The genealogy of health-care reform. Evolution through defeat ; Progressive health insurance, 1915-1919 ; The New Deal and national health insurance, 1935-1950 ; The growth of the protected pu...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
"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, p...
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Remedy and reaction : the peculiar American struggle over health care reform / Paul Starr.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index.
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c2011.
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N362.10973/79
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74VvzxqwAN6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvzxqwAN6X
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ISBN
0300171099 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300171099 (cloth : alk. paper)
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362.10973
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991009558329702626
