The Healthcare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America)

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in America?......Page 16
1 Setting the Stage: Uncertainty in Early Medicine and Government Roles......Page 22
2 Not Quite Catching the Wave: Health Care and the Early-Twentieth-Century Social Insurance Movement......Page 44
3 Policy Growth without a Plan or Philosophy: The 1950s and Early 1960s......Page 72
4 Enacting Medicare and Medicaid......Page 88
5 Deepening Trouble with the Healthcare System......Page 108
6 The Rise and Fall of the Clinton Plan......Page 132
7 One Piece at a Time?......Page 154
8 Struggling toward a Healthcare System......Page 174
Appendix 1: Timeline of Significant Events in American Health Care......Page 192
Appendix 2: Annotated List of Further Readings: Selected Topics......Page 196
Bibliography......Page 200
E......Page 208
N......Page 209
X......Page 210