One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance Books
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Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services–every people, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans–a shocking 43 million people–do not have any health care insurance at all.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a acutely written history of America’s failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their extensive resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government’s hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized “grassroots” protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry started assuming a leading role hostile to reform that continues to this day.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America’s health care system.
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See my review of “Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity” for reasons why this argument is bogus and filled with lies.
Rating: 1 / 5
the book came on time, looks new and was incredibly cheap
Rating: 5 / 5
“An vital book. Jill Quadagno provides an impressive array of historical evidence to advance original arguments for why the United States lacks a comprehensive health care system and why health insurance should be viewed as a social aptly. This book is must reading for those concerned about health care reform in the United States.” — William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears
“A alarming historical account of how powerful groups with self-serving financial interests have successfully blocked attempts to enact national health insurance for seven decades, leaving tens of millions of our citizens without adequate health care coverage and often without even minimal care. Anyone keen to seek reform of our terribly fragmented health care system must study its lessons and its blueprint for action; a task that will require near unprecedented political skills and monumental organizational prowess.” — Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., author of On The Take: How Medicine’s Complicity With Huge Business Can Endanger Your Health
“Jill Quadagno has produced the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the power and effectiveness of interest groups in defeating a century of national health insurance reform campaigns. An impressive combination of theory and historical research, One Nation, Uninsured sets the parameters for the next round of debate over why the U.S. remains the only people without universal health insurance and how it might still expand access even as reigning in expenditure.” — Lawrence R. Jacobs, McKnight Land Grant Professor, University of Minnesota
“A fresh, savvy, powerful, ambitious, lyrical explanation of how America became so heartless about health care. Highly not compulsory for both citizens and scholars.” — James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation and Healthy, Wealthy, and Honest
“Quadagno, a distinguished sociologist with a long-standing interest in policy, explores a century of government attempts to make universal health care and the powerful forces that have defeated those attempts…. Her sociological insights illuminate a path to reform.” — The San Diego Union-Tribune
“Readable and engaging…. Some of the most fascinating parts come from Quadagno’s own archival searches and her interviews with people who lived the history that she describes…. Quadagno’s sustained focus on interest-group politics seems aptly on target.” — New England Journal of Medicine
“A strongly argued account that provides helpful ammunition for anyone seeking to effect exchange in a medical system that willfully excludes so many who need it.” — Kirkus Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
The order was canceled after I was lead to beleave that the book had already been payed for.
Rating: 1 / 5
The USA is the only advanced people in the world without national health insurance because every effort to establish national health insurance has been blocked by the greed of unique interests. Hundreds of billions of dollars are earned in our healthcare system by interests who have been able to block reforms for many decades. Of these vast amounts of money, only a few pennies on the dough are spent on basic healthcare and prevenative healthcare. This is an unbelievable tragedy unfolding before our eyes.
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