For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of these programs and their impact on society ¿ from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the AffordableCare Act ("Obamacare").
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of these programs and their impact on society ¿ from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the AffordableCare Act ("Obamacare").
Alan B. Cohen is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University School of Management, where he directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and Scholars in Health Policy Research Programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (University of Michigan, 2004). David C. Colby was Vice President of Policy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a noted health services research and policy expert. His published research has focused on Medicaid and Medicare, media coverage of AIDS, political science, and civil rights. He has worked in government on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and at the Congressional Budget Office, and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Keith A. Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His recent books include: Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins, 2014); How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University, 2011); and The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a well-known commentator in the media who publishes a popular weekly column for CNN.com. Zelizer is the author and editor of fourteen books on American political history. His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin Press, 2015).
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* List of Abbreviations * Introduction: The World that Medicare and Medicaid Made * Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer * Part I: Origins, Vision, and the Challenge of Implementation * The Contentious Origins of Medicare and Medicaid * Julian Zelizer * Civil Rights and Medicare: Historical Convergence and Continuing Legacy * David Barton Smith * Looking Back: The Early Days of Medicaid and Medicare * Rashi Fein * The Road Not Taken: What Happened to Medicare for All? * Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore Marmor * Part II: The Remaking of Values, Relationships, and Society * The Transformation of Medicaid from Poor Law Legacy to Middle-Class Entitlement? * Jill Quadagno * How the Courts Created the Medicaid Entitlement * Sara Rosenbaum * Medicare and the Social Transformations of American Elders * Mark Schlesinger * Part III: Retrenchment, Reform, and Reaction * The Third Rail of Politics? Medicare's Untouchability * Mark Peterson * Medicare Innovations in the War Over the Key to the U.S. Treasury * Uwe E. Reinhardt * Medicaid Rising: The Perils and Potential of Federalism * Frank Thompson * Independence and Freedom: Public Opinion and the Politics of Medicare and Medicaid * Andrea Louise Campbell * Part IV: The Road to Affordable Care * The Era of Big Government: Why It Never Ended * Keith Wailoo * Built to Last? Policy Entrenchment and Regret in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act * Paul Starr * The Missing Piece: Medicare, Medicaid, and Long-Term Care * Judith Feder * From Servant to Master? Medicare, Cost Control, and the Future of American Health Care * Jacob Hacker * Part V: Looking Ahead * Medicare in American Political History: The Rise and Fall of Social Insurance * James Morone and Elizabeth Fauquert * Conclusion * Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer
* List of Abbreviations * Introduction: The World that Medicare and Medicaid Made * Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer * Part I: Origins, Vision, and the Challenge of Implementation * The Contentious Origins of Medicare and Medicaid * Julian Zelizer * Civil Rights and Medicare: Historical Convergence and Continuing Legacy * David Barton Smith * Looking Back: The Early Days of Medicaid and Medicare * Rashi Fein * The Road Not Taken: What Happened to Medicare for All? * Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore Marmor * Part II: The Remaking of Values, Relationships, and Society * The Transformation of Medicaid from Poor Law Legacy to Middle-Class Entitlement? * Jill Quadagno * How the Courts Created the Medicaid Entitlement * Sara Rosenbaum * Medicare and the Social Transformations of American Elders * Mark Schlesinger * Part III: Retrenchment, Reform, and Reaction * The Third Rail of Politics? Medicare's Untouchability * Mark Peterson * Medicare Innovations in the War Over the Key to the U.S. Treasury * Uwe E. Reinhardt * Medicaid Rising: The Perils and Potential of Federalism * Frank Thompson * Independence and Freedom: Public Opinion and the Politics of Medicare and Medicaid * Andrea Louise Campbell * Part IV: The Road to Affordable Care * The Era of Big Government: Why It Never Ended * Keith Wailoo * Built to Last? Policy Entrenchment and Regret in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act * Paul Starr * The Missing Piece: Medicare, Medicaid, and Long-Term Care * Judith Feder * From Servant to Master? Medicare, Cost Control, and the Future of American Health Care * Jacob Hacker * Part V: Looking Ahead * Medicare in American Political History: The Rise and Fall of Social Insurance * James Morone and Elizabeth Fauquert * Conclusion * Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer
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