Gunnar Almgren
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231170130
- eISBN:
- 9780231543316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170130.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The chapter begins with a review of the efforts to reform health care in ways that would assure health care for all Americans, beginning with Progressive Era reforms in the early 1900’s through the ...
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The chapter begins with a review of the efforts to reform health care in ways that would assure health care for all Americans, beginning with Progressive Era reforms in the early 1900’s through the William Clinton administration’s ill-fated Health Security Act in the early 1990’s. After delving into the less ambitious reforms of late 1900’s aimed at cost-containment and incremental expansions of health insurance coverage for low-income children, the chapter examines the devolution of the employment-based insurance for working families was pivotal to the economic and political context of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2009 –the first federal legislation in U.S. history to advance universal health insurance for all American citizens as its central goal. The chapter concludes with a prognosis for the successful implementation of the ACA, as well as its long term prospects.Less
The chapter begins with a review of the efforts to reform health care in ways that would assure health care for all Americans, beginning with Progressive Era reforms in the early 1900’s through the William Clinton administration’s ill-fated Health Security Act in the early 1990’s. After delving into the less ambitious reforms of late 1900’s aimed at cost-containment and incremental expansions of health insurance coverage for low-income children, the chapter examines the devolution of the employment-based insurance for working families was pivotal to the economic and political context of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2009 –the first federal legislation in U.S. history to advance universal health insurance for all American citizens as its central goal. The chapter concludes with a prognosis for the successful implementation of the ACA, as well as its long term prospects.
Janice Morphet
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781447300465
- eISBN:
- 9781447310846
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447300465.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter reviews various approaches available to making and analyzing public policy. It considers these as mechanisms of policy making within an overall strategic context and reviews them against ...
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This chapter reviews various approaches available to making and analyzing public policy. It considers these as mechanisms of policy making within an overall strategic context and reviews them against outcomes. The approaches here include those mechanisms of policy making that are more formal, such as treaties which are seldom considered as policy shaping mechanisms, and, this book argues, have been of considerable importance within the UK context and policy transfer. The more informal means considered include policy communities and policy networks. The chapter also includes a short discussion on the emerging debate on policy mobility within this context. It also covers the effects of not making policy and concludes with an additional category on policy as fashion.Less
This chapter reviews various approaches available to making and analyzing public policy. It considers these as mechanisms of policy making within an overall strategic context and reviews them against outcomes. The approaches here include those mechanisms of policy making that are more formal, such as treaties which are seldom considered as policy shaping mechanisms, and, this book argues, have been of considerable importance within the UK context and policy transfer. The more informal means considered include policy communities and policy networks. The chapter also includes a short discussion on the emerging debate on policy mobility within this context. It also covers the effects of not making policy and concludes with an additional category on policy as fashion.
