| Description |
xxxv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : rights and rationing before 1930 -- The struggle for health care in the Great Depression. A crisis of access ; Social security without health security -- Prosperity and exclusion, 1941-64. Health care at war ; Rights to refuse : the triumph of the hospital ; Rationing by coverage : the rise of private health insurance -- New entitlements and new movements, 1965-80. Entitlements but not rights : Medicare and Medicaid ; The rise of health care activism -- Rights vs. markets, 1981-2008. Emergency rooms and epidemics ; At the breaking point -- Epilogue : rights, rationing, and reform. |
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Right to health -- United States -- History.
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Right to health. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Health services accessibility -- United States -- History.
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Health services accessibility. |
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Health care rationing -- United States -- History.
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Health care rationing. |
| ISBN |
9780226348032 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0226348032 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780226348056 (e-book) |
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0226348059 (e-book) |
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