Altman, Stuart H.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
Added to CLICnet on 08/16/2013

Check CLICnet for availability
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-406) and index.
• Nixon 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.
• Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within historical perspective. Altman was a key participant at critical junctures in the history of health reform.

Subjects:

• Medical policy — United States.
• Health care reform — United States.
• Health Care Reform — history — United States.
• Health Policy — United States.
• History, 20th Century — United States.
• History, 21st Century — United States.
• Politics — United States.
• Universal Coverage — United States.

Requested by McLaughlin, ML