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Health Security for All

Dreams of Universal Health Care in America

Alan Derickson

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This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy—universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism.

An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest...

This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy—universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism.

An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and idealists across the political spectrum.

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This book provides an intriguing recount of health care reform's storied and often tumultuous past.

Required reading for those interested in the life and death of health policy initiatives... Valuable primer on health policy.

Will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers... and anyone interested in a fairer and healthier society.

Derickson has rendered these ideas concerning access intelligible and the disputes over them comprehensible.

Derickson's book is undoubtedly an important contribution that deserves a wide readership.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. A Fertile and Lively Cause of Poverty
Chapter 2. One of the Most Radical Moves Ever Made
Chapter 3. No Poor-Man's System
Chapter 4. American Democratic Medicine
Chapter 5. Well on the

Preface
Chapter 1. A Fertile and Lively Cause of Poverty
Chapter 2. One of the Most Radical Moves Ever Made
Chapter 3. No Poor-Man's System
Chapter 4. American Democratic Medicine
Chapter 5. Well on the Way
Chapter 6. As Much a Birthright as Education
Epilogue: Alone Among the Developed Nations
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

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