Health Care for Some - Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930

Informationen zum Autor Beatrix Hoffman is associate professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. Klappentext The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare! as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? The author offers an explanation in the form of an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. Zusammenfassung The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare! as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? The author offers an explanation in the form of an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care.

Product details

• Authors: Beatrix Hoffman, Beatrix Rebecca Hoffman, Hoffman Beatrix
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780226348032
• ISBN: 978-0-226-34803-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care