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excellent review
Excellent history of shape care in america.
It gives insight into an era before my time and answers a lot of questions about how things worked.
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Excellent supplement to Daschle’s book
Much more detailed and thematic than Critical, Tom Daschle’s assessment of healthcare reform and brief policy presentation, this book is still very readable and is de rigueur for…
In One Nation, Uninsured sociologist Jill Quadagno clarifies how powerful stakeholders have blocked every bid for complete shape care coverage from the Progressive Era through the Clinton debacle. A perfectly written and compelling account of 100 years of shape policy history told with a novelist’s flair and an historian’s eye for point.
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book was cheap and new
the book came on time, looks new and was incredibly cheap
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Praise for One Nation, Uninsured”An vital book. Jill Quadagno provides an impressive array of historical evidence to advance original arguments for why the United States lacks a comprehensive shape…
One Nation Uninsured is brought to life in a original way by various first-hand recollections that are peppered throughout detailed, academic sketches of the foremost historical episodes that disastrous to produce national shape insurance. Instead of reading like another dry textbook, this book provides an informative, intimate, and plausible narrative of why many of the foremost players did what they did in light of their different circumstances, motivations, and temperaments. Particular attention is also paid to other vital non-shape care events, such as the Red Scare, Brown v. Board of Education, Watergate, and Iran-Contra, as they indirectly affected the political will to mobilize for and against national shape insurance, making this account all the more believable and nicely nuanced.
My only complaint is that since the book was published in 2005, 2006 Part D legislation which expanded Medicare coverage, could not be discussed, but hopefully an updated edition will be written in a few years. Overall, a surprisingly fascinating and readable primer on such a complex issue.
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More bogus literature
See my review of “Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Chance” for reasons why this argument is bogus and filled with lies.
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Powerful Interests Have Blocked Every Try With Lies
The USA is the only advanced country in the world without national shape insurance because every try to establish national shape insurance has been blocked by the greed of…
Very enlightening historical perspective on national shape insurance. It seems special interests dominant in our democratic society. Quite surprising that both republican & democratic presidents tried to pass national shape insurance. Special interests contribute to both parties and when the going gets close focus on those candidates who are vulnerable in order to entice their vote.
In our current lack of bi-partisian political climate, it seems very doubtful that national shape insurance has a chance of being passed.