The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security

by Jacob S. Hacker

Book Overview

During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated social policy initiatives in American history: Bill Clinton's 1993 proposal for comprehensive coverage under "managed competition." Here Jacob Hacker not only investigates for the first time how managed competition became the president's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. He...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691005281
• ISBN13: 9780691005287
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"