How Government Created and Shaped the U.S. Nursing Home Industry

Bibliographic Data

ID7737456
AuthorsLeslie King (0000-0002-2940-6077, Smith College, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue6
Pages881-897
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0896920519853020
OpenAlexW2950761274
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

Beginning in the 1960s, U.S. government policy largely created, and subsequently facilitated the corporatization of, a powerful, multi-billion dollar nursing home industry. Using data from trade publications, government agency reports, Congressional hearings, newspaper reports and existing scholarly research, I chart the relationship between the state and the U.S. nursing home industry over four time periods to reveal how, at different moments, government policy contributed to first the creation, then the corporatization and consolidation of the industry. I argue that the trajectory of Medicare and Medicaid policy is not wholly neoliberal but neither should it be considered progressive

Business · Corporatization · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Liberian dollar · Market economy · Medicaid · Political science · Public policy · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Finance

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