Reviews for Dictionary Of Medical Sociology

The average rating for Dictionary Of Medical Sociology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-08 00:00:00 trey helms This book is obviously a tad out of date, being written before the Affordable Care Act and ending with a list of recommendations that seem to foreshadow the ACA (Quadagno is very up on Medicaid expansion, and rightly so). But its strength is that it manages to weave the political history of specific battles ' like Harry Truman's Fair Deal push for single-payer, or the passage of Medicare/Medicaid, or the failure of Clinton's plan ' with the structural changes in the health business that shaped those fights. This especially helps in telling the story of Medicare Catastrophic coverage, a genuinely good bill that was immediately repealed upon senior backlash over additional fees, despite it being their last defense against corporations eager to cut health benefits for retirees. Quadagno makes a good case that the bill could thought of as a corporate bailout, a way to socialize the cost of the corporate welfare state that Walter Reuther and others built up in the 1950s and 60s as the bill came due. That works because of her lead-up explaining the revolt of businesses against health providers around the same time, as they concluded that the broad professional leeway they had given doctors and hospitals was no longer fiscally viable. That in turn enables a useful discussion of how insurers, rather than doctors, were the main antagonists for Clinton in 1994, a sharp contrast from the AMA-driven fights over Medicare and the Fair Deal. More broadly it's an important book to read if you want to understand why so many institutional actors in the Democratic party are still trying hard to develop an alternative to single payer that might try to mitigate the coalitional opposition that has doomed health reform repeatedly in the past. The big lesson of Quadagno is that you can't really overrun that opposition without well-organized allies that are even stronger, like unions and the AARP, which together got Medicare through, and even then after tremendous compromises. With unions basically dead and the AARP not a major player outside care for seniors, the prospects for a similar pro-reform coalition getting together now seem dim.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-26 00:00:00 Paul Wiersma This is a very detailed documented history of health care, (or the lack thereof) . The only argument that the opponents of national health care have is : 'but this is SOCIALISM'. These same people are now (Jan.2021) asking for $2000 checks from the goverment.Socialism ?