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Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth
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- ISBN
- 9780691119519
- Subject Area
- Medical, History, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Dead on Arrival : the Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- United States / 20th Century, Health Care Delivery, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Health Policy
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Series
- Politics and Society in Modern America Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests. Dead on Arrival stands alone in accounting for the failure of national or universal health policy from the early twentieth century to the present. As importantly, it also suggests how various interests (doctors, hospitals, patients, workers, employers, labor unions, medical reformers, and political parties) confronted the question of health care--as a private responsibility, as a job-based benefit, as a political obligation, and as a fundamental right. Using health care as a window onto the logic of American politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued, Dead on Arrival is thus not only a compelling history of the health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country's political economy and political culture through "the American century," of the role of private interests and private benefits in the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its citizens.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691119511
ISBN-13
9780691119519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30874730
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Dead on Arrival : the Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Publication Year
2004
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Health Care Delivery, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Health Policy
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical, History, Political Science
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?" --Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association, "A treasure trove of information for anyone seriously wishing to tackle this issue." --Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Bay Guardian, "Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?"-- Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association, "[A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'. . . [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives." --Rosemary A. Stevens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book., Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, butDead on Arrivalis more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?, A treasure trove of information for anyone seriously wishing to tackle this issue. -- Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Bay Guardian, This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts., "At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book." --Jacob S. Hacker, Political Science Quarterly, "[A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'. . . [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives."-- Rosemary A. Stevens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system. . . . [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years. -- Declan O'Reilly, Enterprise & Society, At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book. -- Jacob S. Hacker, Political Science Quarterly, Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, butDead on Arrivalis more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance? -- Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association, "A treasure trove of information for anyone seriously wishing to tackle this issue."-- Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Bay Guardian, [A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'. . . [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives. -- Rosemary A. Stevens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance? -- Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association, "A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system. . . . [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years." --Declan O'Reilly, Enterprise & Society, "This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts."-- David Rosner, Business History Review, A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system. . . . [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years., Another autopsy of the failure to implement a US national health plan? Yes, but Dead on Arrival is more interesting, informative, and compelling than others. Its strength lies in the integration of multiple social, economic, and political perspectives within a historical context to address the question, why no national health insurance?, "At a time of renewed popular and scholarly debate over America's exceptional welfare state, students of American public affairs will find much of value in Gordon's timely book."-- Jacob S. Hacker, Political Science Quarterly, [A] brilliantly recounted, thoughtful, and persuasive argument, not for simple explanations, but for a complex, on-the-ground discussion of what it was in the United States that made universal health insurance 'dead on arrival.'. . . [This book] is impeccably and impressively researched, drawing extensively on governmental and private archives., "This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts." --David Rosner, Business History Review, This is a sophisticated, impassioned, and well-documented analysis of the failures of twentieth-century American health reform efforts. -- David Rosner, Business History Review, "A welcome addition to a large literature on the modern United States medical system. . . . [It] illuminates the political deadlock and the institutional rigidity of the American system and offers a cogent explanation for why reform has been so intractable in health care throughout the last hundred years."-- Declan O'Reilly, Enterprise & Society
Series Volume Number
29
Dewey Decimal
362.1/0973
Lc Classification Number
Ra395.A3g67 2004
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in the United States? 1 1. The Political Economy of American Health Care: An Overview, 1910-2000 12 2. Bargaining for Health: Private Health Insurance and Public Policy 46 3. Between Contract and Charity: Health Care and the Dilemmas of Social Insurance 90 4. Socialized Medicine and Other Afflictions: The Political Culture of the Health Debate 136 5. Health Care in Black and White: Race, Region, and Health Politics 172 6. Private Interests and Public Policy: Health Care's Corporate Compromise 210 7. Silenced Majority: American Politics and the Dilemmas of Health Reform 261 Conclusion: The Past and Future of Health Politics 297 Archival Sources 303 Index 307
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2003
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