Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform

A leading expert explains how Americans trapped themselves in a costly and complicated health system—and came to fight so bitterly about changing it

In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in...