Health care for some rights and rationing in the United States since 1930
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought, due to...
| Main Author: | Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Rationing and rights: history and definitions
- Rights and rationing before 1930
- The Struggle for Health Care in the Great Depression: A crisis of access ; Social security without health security.
- Prosperity and Exclusion, 1941-1964: Health care at war ; Rights to refuse, the triumph of the hospital ; Rationing by coverage, the rise of private health insurance.
- New Entitlements and New Movements, 1965-1980: Entitlements but not rights, Medicare and Medicaid ; The rise of health care activism.
- Rights vs. Markets, 1981-2008: Emergency rooms and epidemics ; At the breaking point ; Rights, rationing, and reform.