Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle

Name: Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
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ISBN: 9781616144562

ISBN-10: 1616144564

ISBN-13: 9781616144562

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stuart Altman, David I. Shactman, John Kerry

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Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—inter-nationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing stories in the hundred-year saga leading up to the landmark 2010 legislation. Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and good old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within a historical perspective. The authors describe the sometimes haphazard, piece-by-piece construction of the nation’s health…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 9/20/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 429
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.540



Foreword



Introduction



Prologue: Barack Obama and the Challenge of Health Care Reform


Acknowledgments



The Hard Road to Success: One Hundred Years of Past Failures



Nixon Comes Close: Our Plan Looks Like a Slam Dunk, but Ends with Just a Dunk



Clinton Chooses Wrong: The Colossal Defeat of Managed Competition



The Past Foreshadows the Present: Early Attempts with Little Success



Expanding Health Coverage Piece by Piece



The Hill-Burton Program: How America's Uninsured Poor Got a Right to Free Hospital Care



The Three-Layer Cake: Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the Epic Battle to Enact Medicare



Ooops! The Brief Life and Death of Medicare Catastrophic



Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress: HIPAA and SCHIP Add Two More Pieces to the Puzzle



The Unlikely Saga of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit



Why Can't Americans Afford Their Health Care? The Battle to Control Health Care Costs



Controlling Health Costs: Many Attempts but Few Successes



The Last Twenty Years: Health Care Spending Keeps Growing



Success at Last!



Obama Develops His Plan



Early Players and Done Deals



Baucus, Grassley, and the Gang of Six



The Summer of Death Panels



The Speaker Carries the Day



The Senate and the Christmas Eve Health Bill



Success at Last



How He Did It: A Political Strategy Learned from History



The Future Is Cost Control


Epilogue


Endnotes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index