Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Starr, Paul

Titel

Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book offers a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, the author argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. It covers the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990s, the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed, how Mitt Romney's reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats, the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives.