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The political life of medicare / Jonathan Oberlander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oberlander, Jonathan.
- Series:
- American politics and political economy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicare--Political aspects--United States.
- Medicare.
- Financing, Government.
- Medicare--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Health Care Costs.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicare.
- Financing, Government.
- United States.
- Health Care Costs.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In recent years, bitter partisan disputes have erupted over Medicare reform. Democrats and Republicans have fiercely contested issues such as prescription drug coverage and how to finance Medicare to absorb the baby boomers. As Jonathan Oberlander demonstrates in "The Political Life of Medicare," these developments herald the reopening of a historic debate over Medicare's fundamental purpose and structure. Revealing how Medicare politics and policies have developed since Medicare's enactment in 1965 and what the program's future holds, Oberlander's timely and accessible analysis will interest anyone concerned with American politics and public policy, health care politics, aging, and the welfare state.
- Contents:
- Medicare's roots: the elusive search for national health insurance
- Going nowhere: the politics of benefits
- Going broke: the politics of financing
- The state rises: the politics of regulation
- Medicare politics: patterns and explanations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226615952
- 0226615960
- OCLC:
- 50554903
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