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One Nation, Uninsured - Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance (Paperback, New edition)
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One Nation, Uninsured - Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance (Paperback, New edition)
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Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access
to essential health care services--every country, that is, except
the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43
million people--do not have any health care insurance at all.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of
America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its
citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno
shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met
with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their
considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of
the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians
led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would
mean government control of the lucrative private health care
market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving
large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and
organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded
groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and
Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start
scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a
leading role against reform that continues to this day.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles
over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a
stake in the future of America's health care system.
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