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Format: 1 online resource (xxv, 228 p. ) , ill. ;

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 1-351-47692-0 , 1-315-13399-7 , 0-585-39375-3

Series Statement: Social Institutions and Social Change

Content: "On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri to sign the Medicare bill. The new statute included two related insurance programs to finance substantial portions of the hospital and physician expenses incurred by Americans over the age of sixty-five. Public attempts to improve American health standards have typically precipitated bitter debate, even as the issue has shifted from the professional and legal status of physicians to the availability of hospital care and public health programs. In The Politics of Medicare, Marmor helps the reader understand Medicare's origins, and he interprets the history of the program and explores what happened to Medicare politically as it turned from a legislative act in the mid-1960s to a major program of American government in the three decades since. This is a vibrant study of an important piece of legislation that asks and answers several questions: How could the American political system yield a policy that simultaneously appeased anti-governmental biases and used the federal government to provide a major entitlement' How was the American Medical Association legally overcome yet placated enough to participate in the program' And how did the Medicare law emerge so enlarged from earlier proposals that themselves had caused so much controversy'"--Provided by publisher.

Note: First published 2000 by Transaction Publishers. , 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. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-202-30399-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.4324/9781315133997