One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health InsuranceOxford University Press, 2006 M10 9 - 288 pages Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day. One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system. |
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... created themselves as a way to head off a government program. Physicians' worst fears were realized in 1946 when Harry Truman was elected president. After Truman made national health insurance the key domestic issue of his Fair Deal ...
... created themselves as a way to head off a government program. Physicians' worst fears were realized in 1946 when Harry Truman was elected president. After Truman made national health insurance the key domestic issue of his Fair Deal ...
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... created uncontrollable inflation in the health care system, triggering a purchaser's revolt. Chapter 5 describes the decade-long struggle of federal officials to introduce cost containment measures and discusses the effect this struggle ...
... created uncontrollable inflation in the health care system, triggering a purchaser's revolt. Chapter 5 describes the decade-long struggle of federal officials to introduce cost containment measures and discusses the effect this struggle ...
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... created during the Progressive Era. Founded by academics and upper-middle-class social reformers, AALL members disavowed socialism and sought to use scientific methods to identify the needs of wage earners and curtail the worst abuses ...
... created during the Progressive Era. Founded by academics and upper-middle-class social reformers, AALL members disavowed socialism and sought to use scientific methods to identify the needs of wage earners and curtail the worst abuses ...
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Contents
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Organized Labors Health Benefits | 48 |
Provider Sovereignty and Civil Rights | 77 |
Dont Rock the Boat | 94 |
Cost Containment versus National Health Insurance | 109 |
The Revolt of the Corporate Purchaser | 139 |
The Insurers Triumphant | 169 |
Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance and What Can Be Done About It | 201 |
Notes | 215 |
Index | 265 |
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