Gordon, DEAD AT ARRIVAL: THE POLITICS OF HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA

Colin Gordon, DEAD AT ARRIVAL: THE POLITICS OF HEALTH CARE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
Nakladnik PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton 2005
Meki uvez. 318 stranica.
Knjiga je na engleskom jeziku.

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of “social insurance”; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.

Using health care as a window onto the logic of American politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued, Dead on Arrival is thus not only a compelling history of the health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country’s political economy and political culture through “the American century,” of the role of private interests and private benefits in the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its citizens.

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