Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2011-10-25
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0300171099
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 those Download Remedy and Reaction for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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