A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance

by Nicholas Laham

Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of a single social issue, and certainly the boldest attempt to establish national health insurance in the United States. An analysis of the Clinton campaign, therefore, reveals much about the politics of divided government in the late 20th century, the apparent end of the New Deal-Great Society approach to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956113
• ISBN13: 9780275956110
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"