One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [Kindle Edition]
Author: Jill Quadagno | Language: English | ISBN: B004RL74ZM | Format: PDF, EPUB
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
Download books file now One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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. Direct download links available for One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [Kindle Edition]
Download books file now One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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. Direct download links available for One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 769 KB
- Print Length: 289 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0195160398
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (April 15, 2005)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004RL74ZM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,171 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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"An important book. Jill Quadagno provides an impressive array of historical evidence to advance original arguments for why the United States lacks a comprehensive health care system and why health insurance should be viewed as a social right. This book is must reading for those concerned about health care reform in the United States." -- William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears
"A chilling historical account of how powerful groups with self-serving financial interests have successfully blocked attempts to enact national health insurance for seven decades, leaving tens of millions of our citizens without adequate health care coverage and often without even minimal care. Anyone eager to seek reform of our badly fragmented health care system must study its lessons and its blueprint for action; a task that will require nearly unprecedented political skills and monumental organizational prowess." -- Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., author of On The Take: How Medicine's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
"Jill Quadagno has produced the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the power and effectiveness of interest groups in defeating a century of national health insurance reform campaigns. An impressive combination of theory and historical research, One Nation, Uninsured sets the parameters for the next round of debate over why the U.S. remains the only country without universal health insurance and how it might still expand access while reigning in costs." -- Lawrence R. Jacobs, McKnight Land Grant Professor, University of Minnesota
"A fresh, savvy, powerful, ambitious, lyrical explanation of how America became so heartless about health care. Highly recommended for both citizens and scholars." -- James A.
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