The Healthcare Debate (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures Preface Introduction: Why No National Health Insurance in America? 1Setting the Stage: Uncertainty in Early Medicine and Government Roles 2Not Quite Catching the Wave: Health Care and the Early-Twentieth-Century Social Insurance Movement 3Policy Growth without a Plan or Philosophy: The 1950s and Early 1960s 4Enacting Medicare and Medicaid 5Deepening Trouble with the Healthcare System 6The Rise and Fall of the Clinton Plan 7One Piece at a Time? 8Struggling toward a Healthcare System Appendix 1: Timeline of Significant Events in American Health Care Appendix 2: Annotated List of Further Readings: Selected Topics Bibliography Index