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Boomerang
Clinton's health security effort and the turn against government in U. S. politics
By Skocpol, Theda
- ISBN
- 978-0-39303-970-2
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1996.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1996
What went wrong with Clinton's 1993-94 plan to enact healthcare reform? Skocpol, a liberal social scientist, author of Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (LJ 2/15/93), and occasional Clinton adviser, asserts that the president was between a rock and a hard place in devising and promoting his "Health Security" bill. She points out that he was fighting against the deep suspicions of the federal government held by increasing numbers of the American electorate--a legacy of the Reagan years...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
