Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform

by Gunnar Almgren

Book Overview

While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance is not in its expansion of health care entitlements but in its affirming by an act of Congress the idea that comprehensive health care must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231170130
• ISBN13: 9780231170130
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher