Subject Area

Health care policy

Description

After more than a half century, supporters of health care reform now argue that the passage of national health insurance is "inevitable," for all of the major players in the health care policy arena-physicians, insurers, hospitals, and the mass public-are now favorably disposed toward reform. Periods of optimism are not new in health care debates in the U.S., but in each such era (in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1970s), reform efforts fell victim to ideological fissures in Congress, an overabundance of reform proposals, intense conflicts over what a new health care system should look like, and wavering support from the mass public. This article shows that all of these forces are again at work in the 1990s and may stymie national health care once again.

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan Journals

Publication Date

Winter 1993

Type

Article

Format

Text

.pdf

Language

English

Comments

The article available here represents the author's post-print (post peer-reviewed) version. To view the publisher's version, visit: http://0-www.jstor.org.helin.uri.edu/stable/3235030

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