The Politics of Health Policy: The U.S. Reforms, 1980 – 1994

This book analyzes the federal health policies followed by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton and by the Democratic–controlled Congress. The book shows the connection between the crisis of health care and the correlation of class forces in America. He also explains and evaluates the health care reforms put forward by the Clinton administration, describing the political process and forces behind those reforms.
The book challenges the major positions held in the social and political sciences regarding the nature of power in western capitalist developed countries and its impact on public policy. In great detail and with extensive documentation, the text shows how the welfare state continues to be extremely popular, that the causes of our economic predicament cannot be attributed to the welfare state and that class, continues to have an undiminished relevance in explaining public policies in general and health policies in particular.

Spis treści:
Introduction: The Politics of the US Welfare State.
1. The 1980 and 1984 US Elections and the New Deal: An Alternative Interpretation.
2. Class Politics and Social Movements in the US.
3. The 1988 US Elections – The Primaries: The Rediscovery of the National Health Program by the Democratic Party, A Chronicle of the Jesse Jackson Campaign.
4. The 1988 Presidential Election.
5. The Welfare State and Its Redistributive Effects: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?.
6. Production and the Welfare State: The Political Context of Reforms.
7. Why Some Countries have National Health Insurance, Others Have National Health Services, and the US Has Neither.
8. The 1992 Presidential Election and the Clinton Adminstration Policies: The Politics of Health Care Reform.

Nota biograficzna:
Vicente Navarro is a Professor of Health Policy, Sociology and Policy Studies at the Johns Hopkins University and is founder and Editor–in–Chief of the Intern ational Journal of Health Services. He has been president of the International Association of Health Policy, and consultant to many governments and international agencies such as the United Nations, UNICEF and WHO. He has received many awards for his scholarship, including the John Kosa Memorial prize.

Okładka tylna:
This book analyzes the federal health policies followed by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton and by the Democratic–controlled Congress. The book shows the connection between the crisis of health care and the correlation of class forces in America. He also explains and evaluates the health care reforms put forward by the Clinton administration, describing the political process and forces behind those reforms.
The book challenges the major positions held in the social and political sciences regarding the nature of power in western capitalist developed countries and its impact on public policy. In great detail and with extensive documentation, the text shows how the welfare state continues to be extremely popular, that the causes of our economic predicament cannot be attributed to the welfare state and that class, continues to have an undiminished relevance in explaining public policies in general and health policies in particular.