Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance

by Rick Mayes, Ben Rick Mayes

Universal health coverage has become the Mount Everest of public policy in the United States: the most daunting challenge on the political landscape. But, despite numerous attempts, all efforts to achieve universal health care have failed. In Universal Coverage, Rick Mayes examines the peculiar and persistent lack of universal health coverage in America, its economic and political origins dating back to the 1930s, and the current consequences of this significant problem.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 2005

Reviews

[Read a Book · Rating 2 out of 5]

A decent review of American health care reform and a solid take on why the US refused to take on a national health insurance system. Some political scientists will enjoy Mayes' take on the path dependency of such policy development, yet I came to wonder if other, less successful views from history were neglected in favor of what we already know.