The Political Life of Medicare (American Politics and Political Economy)

In recent years, bitter partisan disputes have erupted over Medicare reform. Democrats and Republicans have fiercely contested issues such as prescription drug coverage and how to finance Medicare to absorb the baby boomers. As Jonathan Oberlander demonstrates in The Political Life of Medicare, these developments herald the reopening of a historic debate over Medicare's fundamental purpose and structure. Revealing how Medicare politics and policies have developed since Medicare's enactment in 1965 and what the program's future holds, Oberlander's timely and accessible analysis will interest anyone concerned with American politics and public policy, health care politics, aging, and the welfare state.

• The Politics of Medicaid
• Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government
• Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965
• Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities (A Century Foundation Book)
• The Politics of Medicare: Second Edition (Social Institutions and Social Change Series)
• Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump
• Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
• Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition
• The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, Revised Edition
• Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy