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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Page ix
... proposal that had seemed sure to succeed just a few months earlier had suffered so ignominious a fate. And so my journey began. For the next four years, I shuffled through reams of documents in the National Archives, the Library of ix ...
... proposal that had seemed sure to succeed just a few months earlier had suffered so ignominious a fate. And so my journey began. For the next four years, I shuffled through reams of documents in the National Archives, the Library of ix ...
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... proposal, declaring: “If the profession is to save itself [from health insurance] it must organize as it has never organized before.”29 During the Great Depression, the AMA waged a ferocious campaign to prevent federal officials from ...
... proposal, declaring: “If the profession is to save itself [from health insurance] it must organize as it has never organized before.”29 During the Great Depression, the AMA waged a ferocious campaign to prevent federal officials from ...
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... proposal for home care benefits for the disabled. Insurers saw home care as a threat to the fledgling private long-term care insurance market, while small-business owners feared the tax hike that would be needed to pay for the benefit ...
... proposal for home care benefits for the disabled. Insurers saw home care as a threat to the fledgling private long-term care insurance market, while small-business owners feared the tax hike that would be needed to pay for the benefit ...
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... proposals, claiming that they would subordinate workers to the state and undermine workers' efforts to resolve their own problems.54 The Social Security Act of 1935, the single most important piece of social welfare legislation of the ...
... proposals, claiming that they would subordinate workers to the state and undermine workers' efforts to resolve their own problems.54 The Social Security Act of 1935, the single most important piece of social welfare legislation of the ...
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... proposals for government health insurance. Chapter 2 investigates why the trade unions helped promote the nascent private ... proposal for home care for the disabled in the 1980s, then launched an attack on President Clinton's plan for ...
... proposals for government health insurance. Chapter 2 investigates why the trade unions helped promote the nascent private ... proposal for home care for the disabled in the 1980s, then launched an attack on President Clinton's plan for ...
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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