Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States

Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such variations reflect distinctive institutions, actors, and reform politics in each country.

In Britain, the Thatcher government's plan to inject a market into the state-administered national heal...