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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care - The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle (Hardcover)
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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care - The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle (Hardcover)
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Essential reading for every American who must navigate the US
health care system.
Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to
understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book,
Stuart Altman--internationally 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 care system, from the early
efforts of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to the later
additions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. In each case, they
examine the factors that led to success or failure, often by
illuminating little-known political maneuvers that brought about
immense shifts in policy or thwarted herculean efforts at reform.
The authors look at key moments in health care history: the
Hill-Burton Act in 1946, in which one determined poverty lawyer
secured the rights of the uninsured poor to get hospital care; the
"three-layer cake" strategy of powerful House Ways and Means
Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills to enact Medicare and Medicaid
under Lyndon Johnson in 1965; the odd story of how Medicare
catastrophic insurance was passed by Ronald Reagan in 1988 and then
repealed because of public anger in 1989; and the fact that the
largest and most expensive expansion of Medicare was enacted by
George W. Bush in 2003.
President Barack Obama is the protagonist in the climactic chapter,
learning from the successes and failures chronicled throughout the
narrative. The authors relate how, in the midst of a worldwide
financial meltdown, Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles
to accomplish what other presidents had tried and failed to achieve
for nearly one hundred years.
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