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Universal coverage : the elusive quest for national health insurance
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- Creator
- Rick Mayes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New edition
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780472114573, 0472114573
- OCLC
- ocm56695951
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.
- Introduction -- Critical juncture: health insurance subordinated to Social Security (1935) -- Diverging pathways: the aftermath of Social Security's passage (mid 1930s to 1950) -- Increasing returns: institutionalization of public and private pathways (early 1950s through early 1960s) -- Symbiotic attachment: "heath insurance through Social Security" (early 1960s through early 1970s) -- Incrementalism's consequences: rising costs, narrowing paths (1970s) -- Locked in and crowded out: entrenched paths and accumulated costs impede universal coverage (1980s and 1990s) -- Conclusion -- Epilogue, 2004
Subjects
- United States. Social Security Administration.
- National health insurance -- United States.
- Health insurance -- United States.
- Universal Health Insurance -- trends -- United States.
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- Insurance, Health -- United States.
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- Medically Uninsured -- United States.
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- Financing, Government -- United States.
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