Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States

by Virginia Gray, David Lowery, Jennifer K. Benz

Book Overview

Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. The most common explanation for the failure of past reform efforts is that special interests were continually able to block reform by lobbying lawmakers. Yet, beginning in the 1970s, accelerating with the failure of the Clinton health care plan, and continuing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158901989X
• ISBN13: 9781589019898
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher