In the century prior to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010, the United States had repeatedly tried—and failed—to adopt comprehensive health-care reform. Although the new law falls short of offering universal coverage, the PPACA represents a remarkable political achievement long viewed by many as impossible. And yet its future is in (...)
February 12, 2012
Books
Breakthrough or Impasse?
Remedy and ReactionThe Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care ReformPaul StarrYale University Press, $28.50, 336 pp.
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