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      The Politics Of Medicare
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      The Politics Of Medicare

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      The Politics Of Medicare book

      The Politics Of Medicare

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      The Politics Of Medicare book

      ByTheodore R. Marmor
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315133997
      Pages 254
      eBook ISBN 9781315133997
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Marmor, T.R. (2000). The Politics Of Medicare (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315133997

      ABSTRACT

      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?

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part I|2 pages

      The Origins And Enactments

      chapter 1|20 pages

      The Origins of the Medicare Strategy

      chapter 2|8 pages

      The Politics of Legislative Impossibility

      chapter 3|14 pages

      The Politics of Legislative Possibility

      chapter 4|17 pages

      The Politics of Legislative Certainty

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Medicare and the Analysis of Social Policy in American Politics

      chapter 6|6 pages

      Legislation to Operation

      The 1965–66 Transition

      part II|2 pages

      The Politics of Medicare: 1966–99

      chapter 7|28 pages

      Medicare’s Politics: 1966-90

      chapter 8|28 pages

      The Politics of Medicare Reform in the 1990s: Budget Struggles, National Health Reform, and Shifting Conflicts

      chapter 9|19 pages

      The Ideological Context of Medicare’s Politics

      The Presumptions of Medicare’s Founders versus the Rise of Procompetitive Ideas in Medical Care

      chapter 10|12 pages

      Reflections on Medicare’s Politics: Puzzles and Patterns

      chapter |9 pages

      Medicare Scholarship: A Selective Review Essay

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