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Summary Table of Contents

This book, in its third edition, offers readers a comprehensive and analytical overview of the historic and contemporary involvement of government and politics in The development of health policy. Chapters are organized around four major areas. The first places health politics and policy within a historical, social, and economic perspective. Part two focuses on an exploration of the interface between health policy and the political structure. Part three covers the role of public opinion and health interest groups in the formulation of health po... MORE

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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

xiii

(2)

FOREWORD

(4)

Rashi Fein

PREFACE

XIX

PART ONE HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY IN PERSPECTIVE

(108)

Chapter 1 The Relationship of Government and Politics to Health and Health Care--A Sociopolitical Overview

(43)

Theodor J. Litman

Chapter 2 The Restructuring of the American Health Care System

(18)

Donald W. Light

Chapter 3 Gridlock and Breakthrough in American Health Politics

(11)

James A. Morone

Chapter 4 The Political Economy of Health Services: A Review and Assessment of Major Ideological Influences and the Impact of New Economic Realities

(34)

Roger M. Battistella with the assistance of John B. Ostrick

PART TWO HEALTH POLICY AND THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE

109

(90)

Chapter 5 Presidential Leadership and Health Policy

111

(24)

William W. Lammers

Chapter 6 Congress and Health Policy: "Dynamics without Change?"

135

(20)

David Falcone

Lynn Hartwig

Chapter 7 The Evolving Challenge of Health Policy Implementation

155

(21)

Frank J. Thompson

Chapter 8 State Roles in Health Care Policy: Past as Prologue?

176

(23)

Debra J. Lipson

PART THREE THE ROLE OF PUBLIC OPINION AND INTEREST GROUPS IN HEALTH POLICY

199

(64)

Chapter 9 Public Opinion and Health Policy

201

(19)

Robert J. Blendon

Mollyann Brodie

Chapter 10 The Demand for Legislation and National Health Care Reform

220

(11)

Paul J. Feldstein

Chapter 11 On Treacherous Ground: The Strategic Choices of Health Interest Groups

231

(32)

Katherine A. Hinckley

Bette S. Hill

PART FOUR HEALTH POLICY AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS

263

(176)

Chapter 12 Sharing the Burden, Containing the Cost: Fundamental Conflicts in Health Care Finance

265

(23)

Robert G. Evans

Chapter 13 Access to Health Care

288

(18)

Irene Fraser

Chapter 14 The Politics of Universal Health Insurance: Lessons for and from the 1990s

306

(17)

Theodore R. Marmor

Morris L. Barer

Chapter 15 The Elderly and Health Politics: The "Coming of Age" of Aging

323

(29)

William P. Brandon

Dana Burr Bradley

Chapter 16 Health Politics and Mental Health Care

352

(15)

David A. Rochefort

Chapter 17 The Health Politics of Disability

367

(17)

Gary L. Albrecht

Chapter 18 The Politics of Environmental Health

384

(18)

Barry G. Rabe

Chapter 19 Rural Health Care Delivery and Finance: Policy and Politics

402

(17)

Keith J. Mueller

Chapter 20 The Politics of AIDS

419

(20)

Leonard S. Robins

Charles Backstrom

Epilogue Health Politics and Policy: Additional Issues and Continuing Challenges for the Twenty-first Century

439

(6)

Leonard S. Robins

Appendix A Chronology and Capsule Highlights of Major Historical and Political Milestones in the Evolution of the Relationship of Government Involvement in Health and Health Care in the United States

445

(28)

Theodor J. Litman

BIBLIOGRAPHY

473

(112)

Theodor J. Litman

INDEX

585