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Routledge
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Routledge
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On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri to sign the Medicare bill. The new statute included two related insurance programs to finance substantial portions of the hospital and physician expenses incurred by Americans over the age of sixty-five. Public attempts to improve American health standards have typically precipitated bitter debate, even as the issue has shifted... Read more
I: The Origins And Enactments; 1: The Origins of the Medicare Strategy; 2: The Politics of Legislative Impossibility; 3: The Politics of Legislative Possibility; 4: The Politics of Legislative Certainty; 5: Medicare and the Analysis of Social Policy in American Politics; 6: Legislation to Operation; II: The Politics of Medicare: 1966–99; 7: Medicare’s Politics: 1966-90; 8: The Politics of Medicare Reform in the 1990s: Budget Struggles, National Health Reform, and Shifting Conflicts; 9: The Ideological Context of Medicare’s Politics; 10: Reflections on Medicare’s Politics: Puzzles and Patterns; Medicare Scholarship: A Selective Review Essay
Biography
Theodore R. R. Marmor
