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Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America

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Series: Politics and Society in Modern America, Book 29

Medical Reference20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0691119511
ISBN13: 9780691119519
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 5 2004
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

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.


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