Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Custodianship of State Policies: A Government Out of Sight -- 1. A Government of Insiders: Unelected Governmental Elites Acting as Custodians of State Policies -- 2. Variations in the Custodian Role: From the NHI Project to the Clinton Plan -- Part II. The Making of Long-Term Health Insiders -- 3. Mapping the Unelected Governmental Health Coverage Policy Elites
4. The Clinton Plan Veterans: Career Paths Marked by a Collective Failure -- 5. From Late Clintonism to Obama: Shared Career Paths? -- Part III. The Hidden Origins of the Affordable Care Act: Elite Configurations and Programmatic Changes -- 6. The Clinton Plan: Programmatic Fragmentation and Divided Elites -- 7. The Impossible Government of "Strangers" -- 8. The George W. Bush Years: Clinton Plan Veterans Make the Next Reform Possible -- 9. Behind the Congressional Votes: Custodianship and the Politics of Accommodation -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Methodology: A Programmatic Elite Framework
Appendix 2. Interviews for the OPERA (2009-2012) and PRoAcTA (2018-2021) Research Programs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
"This work provides insight into how health policy is shaped in the United States, leveraging the Affordable Care Act as the primary example"-- Provided by publisher
