The politics of health care reform : lessons from the past, prospects for the future

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Introduction / James A. Morone

A Century of Failure: Class Barriers to Reform / David J. Rothman

The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance / Deborah A. Stone

Is the Time Finally Ripe? Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s / Theda Skocpol

Black America: From Community Health Care to Crisis Medicine / David McBride

Response: From Community Health Care to Crisis Medicine: Have We Learned the Right Lessons? / Joan M. Leiman

Congress in the 1990s: From Iron Triangles to Policy Networks / Mark A. Peterson

The Bureaucracy Empowered / James A. Morone

The Courts and the Reconstruction of American Social Legislation / Rand E. Rosenblatt

Dogmatic Slumbers: American Business and Health Policy / Lawrence D. Brown

Together Again: Business, Government, and the Quest for Cost Control / Cathie Jo Martin

Can an Employer-Based Health Insurance System Be Just? / Nancy S. Jecker

Commentary: Revisiting the Employment-insurance Link / Joan E. Ruttenberg. Commentary: The Pragmatic Appeal of Employment-Based Health Care Reform / David A. Rochefort

Is Health Care Different? Popular Support of Federal Health and Social Policies / Mark Schlesinger and Taeku Lee

The Politics of American Ambivalence toward Government / Lawrence R. Jacobs

American States and Canadian Provinces: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Spending / Kenneth E. Thorpe

Commentary: Regulatory Regimes and State Health Policy / Robert B. Hackey

Commentary: The Unknown States / Michael S. Sparer

Who Gets What? Levels of Care in Canada, Britain, Germany, and the United States / Colleen M. Grogan

Canada: The Real Issues / Robert G. Evans

Response: Lessons from the Frozen North / Theodore R. Marmor

Universal Health Insurance That Really Works: Foreign Lessons for the United States / William A. Glaser