Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government
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ISBN: 039331572X / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, April 1997
How did the debate on health reform turn into the most concerted attack on government in recent American history?
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Skocpol (government and sociology, Harvard U.) explores the changing currents of domestic U.S. politics through the prism of the defeat of President Clinton's comprehensive health care plan. She argues that the defeat reflected the success of Reaganite conservative tactics which switched from direct attacks on social programs to a fiscal starvation in the name of lower taxes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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