Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform

Recounts the history of health care policy in the United States, and argues that the country became entrapped through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. Reprint.

Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs, Princeton University, and cofounder and coeditor ofThe American Prospect. His 1984 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history. A senior advisor on health policy in the Clinton White House, he writes frequently on national politics.