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020 $a9781616144562 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aRA395.A3$b.A485 2011
060 10 $aWA 11 AA1
082 00 $a362.10973$223
100 1 $aAltman, Stuart H.
245 10 $aPower, politics, and universal health care :$bthe inside story of a century-long balttle /$cStuart H. Altman and David Shactman ; foreword by John Kerry.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2011.
300 $a429 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-406) and index.
505 0 $aNixon comes close : our plan looks like a slam dunk, but ends with just a dunk -- Clinton chooses wrong : the colossal defeat of managed competition -- The past foreshadows the present : early attempts with little success -- The Hill-Burton program : how America's uninsured poor got a right to free hospital care -- The three-layer cake : Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the epic battle to enact medicare -- Oops! the brief life and death of medicare catastrophic -- Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress : HIPAA and SCHIP add two more pieces to the puzzle -- The unlikely saga of the medicare prescription drug benefit -- Controlling health costs : many attempts but few successes -- The last 20 years : health care spending keeps growing -- Obama develops his plan -- Early players and done deals -- Baucus, Grassley, and the gang of six -- The summer of death panels -- The speaker carries the day -- The Senate and the Christmas Eve health bill -- Success at last -- How he did it : a political strategy learned from history -- The future is cost control.
650 0 $aMedical policy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aHealth care reform$zUnited States.
650 12 $aHealth Care Reform$xhistory$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHealth Policy$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHistory, 21st Century$zUnited States.
650 22 $aPolitics$zUnited States.
650 22 $aUniversal Coverage$zUnited States.
700 1 $aShactman, David.