The Political Life of Medicare,9780226615967

The Political Life of Medicare

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ISBN13: 9780226615967
ISBN10: 0226615960
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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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.

Author Biography

Jonathan Oberlander is an assistant professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches health policy in the School of Medicine and the Department of Political Science.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
1(156)
Medicare's Roots
The Elusive Search For National Health Insurance
17(19)
Going Nowhere
The Politics of Benefits
36(38)
Going Broke
The Politics of Financing
74(33)
The State Rises
The Politics of Regulation
107(29)
Medicare Politics
Patterns and Explanations
136(21)
The New Politics of Medicare
157(40)
Notes 197(48)
Bibliography 245(14)
Index 259

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