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Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
Virginia Gray
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Description for Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
Paperback. Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. This title assesses the impact of interest groups to determine if they are capable of shaping policy in their own interests or whether they influence policy at the margins. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 figures, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. The most common explanation for the failure of past reform efforts is that special interests were continually able to block reform by lobbying lawmakers. Yet, beginning in the 1970s, accelerating with the failure of the Clinton health care plan, and continuing through the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, health policy reform was alive and well at the state level. Interest Groups and Health Care Reform ... Read more
Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. The most common explanation for the failure of past reform efforts is that special interests were continually able to block reform by lobbying lawmakers. Yet, beginning in the 1970s, accelerating with the failure of the Clinton health care plan, and continuing through the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, health policy reform was alive and well at the state level. Interest Groups and Health Care Reform ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
267
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
American Governance and Public Policy Series
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589019898
SKU
V9781589019898
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99-50
About Virginia Gray
Virginia Gray is Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. David Lowery is Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University Jennifer K. Benz serves as a senior research scientist for NORC at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
A valuable addition to the very timely debate on health care policy in the US ... incredibly comprehensive in its scope ... provides huge amounts of data; and is filled with exhaustive terminology and advanced statistics. Choice