The Politics of Health Care Reform

by Morone, James A.; Belkin, Gary S.

• ISBN13: 9780822314615
• ISBN10: 0822314614
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This distinguished collection stands out from the recent flurry of books on health reform by its sustained and sophisticated analysis of the political dimension. InThe Politics of Health Care Reform, some of Americars"s best-known political scientists, historians, and legal scholars make sense of our most turbulent policy issue. They dig below the jargon and minutiae to explore the enduring questions of American politics, government reform, and health care. The Politics of Health Care Reformexplains how successful reforms occur in the United States and shows what is unique about health care issues. Theoretically informed, politically astute, historically nuanced, this volume takes an inventory of our health policy infrastructure. Here is an account of the institutions, ideas, and interests that shape health policy in the 1990s: Congress, the federal courts, interest groups, state governments, the public bureaucracy, business (large and small), the insurance industry, the medical profession. The volume offers a fresh look at such critical matters as public opinion, the politics of race and gender, and the lessons we can draw from other nations. The Politics of Health Care Reformis the definitive collection of political science essays about health care. Expanded from two special issues of theJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, the most prominent scholarly journal in the field it helped create, this collection will enliven the present debate over health reform and instruct everyone who is concerned about the future of American health care.Contributors. Lawrence Brown, Robert Evans, William Glaser, Colleen Grogan, Robert Hackey, Lawrence Jacobs, Nancy Jecker, Taeku Lee, Joan Lehman, David McBride, Ted Marmor, Cathie Jo Martin, James A. Morone, Mark Peterson, David Rochefort, Rand Rosenblatt, David Rothman, Joan Ruttenberg, Mark Schlesinger, Theda Skocpol, Michael Sparer, Deborah Stone, Kenneth Thorpe

Table of Contents

Introduction

A Century of Failure: Class Barriers to Reform

The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance

Is the Time Finally Ripe? Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s

Black America: From Community Health Care to Crisis Medicine

From Community Health Care to Crisis Medicine: Have We Learned the Right Lessons?

Congress in the 1990s: From Iron Triangles to Policy Networks

The Bureaucracy Empowered

The Courts and the Reconstruction of American Social Legislation

Dogmatic Slumbers: American Business and Health Policy

Together Again: Business, Government, and the Quest for Cost Control

Can an Employer-Based Health Insurance System be Just?

Revisiting the Employment-Insurance Link

The Pragmatic Appeal of Employment-Based Health Care Reform

Is Health Care Different? Popular Support of Federal Health and Social Policies

The Politics of American Ambivalence toward Government

American States and Canadian Provinces: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Spending

Regulatory Regimes and State Health Policy

The Unknown States

Who Gets What? Levels of Care in Canada, Britain, Germany, and the United States

Canada: The Real Issues

Lessons from the Frozen North

Universal Health Insurance That Really Works: Foreign Lessons for the United States

Index

Notes on Contributors

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