Governing Health The Politics of Health Policy

Name: Governing Health The Politics of Health Policy
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ISBN: 9781421406213

ISBN-10: 1421406217

ISBN-13: 9781421406213

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

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Governing Health examines health care policy from a political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments help define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions. William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert provide a highly readable and comprehensive synthesis of political science research on how government and private institutions affect the policy process. Extensive reviews of the policies that have governed health care since Lyndon Johnson's administration are capped off with a prognosis for the future.Updates to the fourth edition of Governing Health include • new examples and theory perspectives•…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Health Policy and Institutions



Congress



The Presidency



Interest Groups



Bureaucracy



States and Health Care Reform



Health and the Policy Process



The Policy Process



Problem to Policy


Conclusion


References


Index