TY  - GEN
T1  - Dead on arrival : the politics of health care in twentieth-century America
T2  - Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
A1  - Gordon, Colin, 1962-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn367667937
AB  - Publisher's description: Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance" the influence of race and gender on the health care debate and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests. Dead on Arrival stands alone in accounting for the failure of national or universal health policy from the early twentieth century to the present. As importantly, it also suggests how various interests (doctors, hospitals, patients, workers, employers, labor unions, medical reformers, and political parties) confronted the question of health care--as a private responsibility, as a job-based benefit, as a political obligation, and as a fundamental right. Using health care as a window onto the logic of American politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued, Dead on Arrival is thus not only a compelling history of the health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country's political economy and political culture through "the American century," of the role of private interests and private benefits in the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its citizens
OP  - 316
CN  - RA395.A3 G67 2003eb
SN  - 9781400825677
SN  - 1400825679
SN  - 9780691058061
SN  - 0691058067
KW  - Medical policy : United States.
KW  - Medical care : Political aspects : United States.
KW  - Health care reform.
KW  - Politics, Practical.
KW  - Medical education policy : United States.
KW  - Health insurance.
KW  - National health insurance.
KW  - National Health Programs
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - Insurance, Health
KW  - Politics
KW  - United States
KW  - Enseignement médical : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis.
KW  - Soins médicaux : Aspect politique : États-Unis.
KW  - Politique sanitaire : États-Unis.
KW  - Assurance-maladie.
KW  - Services de santé : Réforme.
KW  - Politique.
KW  - politics.
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS : Health Care Issues.
KW  - MEDICAL : Public Health.
KW  - MEDICAL : Health Policy.
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS : Diseases : General.
KW  - MEDICAL : Diseases.
KW  - MEDICAL : Health Care Delivery.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Services & Welfare.
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - National health insurance
KW  - Medical education policy
KW  - Health insurance
KW  - Health care reform
KW  - Medical care : Political aspects
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Gezondheidszorg.
KW  - Overheidsbeleid.
KW  - Sociale zekerheid.
ER  -