The Healthcare Debate Book

List of Tables and Figures ix

Preface xi

Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in America? xv

1 Setting the Stage: Uncertainty in Early Medicine and Government Roles 1

2 Not Quite Catching the Wave: Health Care and the Early-Twentieth-Century Social Insurance Movement 23

3 Policy Growth without a Plan or Philosophy: The 1950s and Early 1960s 51

4 Enacting Medicare and Medicaid 67

5 Deepening Trouble with the Healthcare System 87

6 The Rise and Fall of the Clinton Plan 111

7 One Piece at a Time? 133

8 Struggling toward a Healthcare System 153

Appendix 1 Timeline of Significant Events in American Health Care 171

Appendix 2 Annotated List of Further Readings: Selected Topics 175

Bibliography 179

Index 187