| Description |
1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Grow and Hide -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: America's Expanding, Unequal, and Hidden Health Care State -- Part I The Emergence of a Public Health Care State: 1860-1930 -- 1. A Conspicuous Public Health Care State: Science, Federalism, and the Voluntary Sector -- 2. Expanding Public Health Boundaries -- 3. Public Health Planning: Hope for a Unified Public-Private System -- Part II The Rise of Grow and Hide: 1930-1965 -- 4. The New Public Health Deal: An Alternative to Insurance -- 5. The Voluntary Approach Hides the Role of Government |
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6. Solidifying the Grow-and-Hide Approach -- Part III The Consequences of Grow and Hide: 1965-2020 -- 7. Fragmentation: The Failure of Health Care Planning -- 8. Profiteering: The Hidden Financial Industry Takeover -- 9. Inequality: How Medicaid Is Designed to Grow and Hide -- 10. The ACA Embraces Grow and Hide -- Conclusion: Possibilities for Change: Reveal and Mobilize -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
In Grow and Hide, Colleen M. Grogan details the history of the American health care state and argues that the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US created a publicly financed system while framing it as the opposite in what Grogan terms the ""grow-and-hide regime."" Today, the state's role is larger than ever, yet it remains largely hidden because stakeholders have repeatedly, and successfully, presented the illusion of minimal government involvement. As Grogan reveals if we want to fix care in America, we need to reimagine the way it is organized, prio |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197691557 |
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0197691552 |
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