Yes We Can? The New Push for American Health Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2317192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob S Hacker (0000-0002-3686-2513, University of California at Berkeley, , Berkeley Law School's Center on Health, Economic, and Family Security, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-31 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032329208329752 |
| OpenAlex | W2149475178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
What are the prospects for meaningful reform of U.S. health care? To answer this question requires understanding why previous reform efforts (and in particular the 1993 Clinton health plan) failed-the combination of deep structural biases against large-scale public provision and the inherited constraints posed by the rise of employment-based insurance. Generally, the context is more favorable today than it was fifteen years ago. But the prospects for change hinge on learning the right lesson of history: Politics comes first. Putting politics first means avoiding the overarching mistake of the Clinton reformers: envisioning a grand policy compromise rather than hammering out a real political compromise. It also means addressing the inevitable fears of those who believe they are well protected by our eroding employment-based framework. And it means premising political strategies on the contemporary realities of hyperpolarized politics, rather than wistfully recalled images of the bipartisan politics of old
Compromise · Context (archaeology · Health care · Health care reform · Law and economics · Mistake · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Sociology · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Healthcare Policy and Management · History · Law · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Administration · Health Policy
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Question worth 20 million lives
Making the Connection Between Theories of Policy Change and Policy Practice
Navigating the Borderland of Scholar Activism
Institutional Change and Conflict Regulation
The Road to Somewhere
When Policies Undo Themselves
"Resisting "Politics as Usual
Measuring The Health Of Nations
It’s The Prices, Stupid
It's the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America
Divided we govern
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
Ronald Reagan and “Operation Coffeecup”
The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance
Revisiting Lasswell
Competing Solutions
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
The Policy Scientist of Democracy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |