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| Preface to the Revised Edition | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: An Uneasy Victory | |
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| The Making of a National Impasse | |
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| A Window for Reform | |
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| Choices and Vulnerabilities | |
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| The Genealogy of Health-Care Reform | |
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| Evolution through Defeat | |
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| Progressive Health Insurance, 1915-1919 | |
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| The New Deal and National Health Insurance, 1935-1950 | |
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| The Growth of the Protected Public, 1950-1965 | |
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| Stumbling toward Comprehensive Reform | |
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| Political Deadlock, 1969-1980 | |
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| Political Reversals, 1981-1990 | |
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| The American Path in Health Insurance | |
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| Frustrated Ambitions, Liberal and Conservative | |
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| The Shaping of the Clinton Health Plan, 1991-1993 | |
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| A New Framework | |
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| Clinton's Decisions | |
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| Getting to No, 1994 | |
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| The Democrats' Disorder | |
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| The Big Turnabout | |
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| The Collapse of Congressional Compromise | |
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| Why No Reform? | |
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| Comes the Counterrevolution, 1995-2006 | |
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| Gingrich and the End of Entitlements | |
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| From Bold Leaps to Baby Steps | |
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| A Republican Window | |
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| Return to Crisis | |
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| Rollercoaster | |
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| The Rise of a Reform Consensus, 2006-2008 | |
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| Romney and the Massachusetts Model | |
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| Toward Minimally Invasive Reform | |
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| Making 2008 a Health-Care Election | |
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| Prepare to Launch | |
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| Breaking Through, 2009-2010 | |
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| Health Care First | |
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| Bipartisanship in One Party | |
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| Reaction and Resolve | |
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| Obama and the Rollercoaster to Reform | |
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| Why Health-Care Reform Passed (and Climate Legislation Didn't) | |
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| The Affordable Care Act as Public Philosophy | |
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| Fairness and Equality | |
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| Responsibility and Freedom | |
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| Federalism and Finance | |
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| Health and the Public Household | |
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| Reform's Uncertain Fate | |
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| The Politics of Slow Implementation, 2010-2011 | |
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| The Supreme Court Rules | |
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| Another Election, Another Survival Test | |
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| The Peculiar Struggle | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |