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The Politics of Medicare

Marmor, Theodore R.; Marmor, Theodore
ISBN-10: 0202304256
ISBN-13: 9780202304250

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Theodore R. Marmor teaches politics and public policy in Yale University's management and law schools as well as in its political science department. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Marmor has written widely about the politics of the modern welfare state, and has served on a number of governmental commissions and scholarly editorial boards.
Essential reading for Americans trying to understand the current Medicare battle.The new edition of a 1973 work analyzing the political forces, interactions, and ideas that created welfare. Leaving the original work basically unchanged, the author has also added a second section that explores the political evolution of Medicare since its inception into the 1990s.
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Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
The Origins and Enactments
The Origins of the Medicare Strategy
Twentieth-Century Medicine: The Paradoxes of Progress
Origins of the Government Health Insurance Issue
Universal Health Insurance Proposals in the Fair Deal
The Politics of Incrementalism: Turning toward the Aged
The Appeal of Focusing on the Aged
Focusing on Social Security Contributors
Pressure Groups and Medicare: The Lobbying of Millions
The Politics of Legislative Impossibility
Medicare under a Republican President
The Forand Bill versus the Welfare Approach
Kerr-Mills Bill of 1960
The Politics of Legislative Possibility
Medicare, 1961
The Obstacle Course in Congress: First Try with Ways and Means
The Southern Democrats
The Kennedy Administration versus the AMA
Medicare's Near Miss, 1964
The Politics of Legislative Certainty
The Impact of the Election of 1964
The Administration's Proposal: H.R.
1. and S. 1
The Ways and Means Committee and the House Take Action: January-April
H.R. 6675 Passes the Senate: April-July
Medicare Comes out of the Conference Committee: July 26, 1965
The Outcome of 1965: Explanation and Issues
Medicare and the Analysis of Social Policy in American Politics
Case Studies and Cumulative Knowledge
Conceptual Models and the Medicare Case
The Origins of Medicare: The Rational Actor Model
The Responses of Medicare, 1952-64: The Organizational Process Model
The 1965 Legislation: The Bureaucratic Politics Model
Processes and Policy in American Politics: The Case of Medicare
Medicare and the Character of American Social Policy
Legislation to Operation
The Politics of Medicare: 1966-99
Medicare's Politics: 1966-90
The Origins of Medicare Revisited
The Politics of Accommodation: Medicare's Implementation and Subsequent Evolution from 1966 to 1970
The 1970s: Ineffectual Reforms and Intermittent Progress
The 1980s: The Challenge of the Reagan Era
Conclusion
The Politics of Medicare Reform in the 1990s: Budget Struggles, National Health Reform, and Shifting Conflicts
Introduction: The Changing Context of Medicare's Politics in the 1990s
Medicare and the 1992 Elections: The Reawakening of Concerns
A Negative Consensus on Health Reform
The 1995 Trustees' Report and Claims of Insolvency
From Legislative Impasse 1995-96 to Medicare "Reform" in 1997
The Medicare Reforms of 1997: Understanding the Politics of Balancing Budgets
Medicare Flip-Flop
The Ideological Context of Medicare's Politics: The Presumptions of Medicare's Founders versus the Rise of Procompetitive Ideas in Medical Care
Introduction
Medicare's Philosophical Roots: Social Insurance and the Presumption of Expansion
The Rise of Procompetitive Ideas about Medical Care
Reflections on Medicare's Politics: Puzzles and Patterns
Introduction
Understanding Medicare's Politics: Patterns, Puzzles, and Explanatory Approaches
Puzzle One: Structural Explanations and Medicare's Limited Evolution
Puzzle Two: Insider Politics, Medicare's Price Controls, and the Puzzles of the Reagan/Bush Era
Puzzle Three: Medicare 1995-99--Macro Politics and the Emergence of Unexpected Remedies
Conclusion
Medicare Scholarship: A Selective Review Essay
Glossary
References to Part I
References to Part II
Index

List price: $23.95
Edition: 2nd 2000
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 254
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.84 lbs.
Language: English

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