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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Prologue: Barack Obama and the Challenge of Health Care Reform
Acknowledgments
Part 1: The Hard Road to Success: One Hundred Years of Past Failures
1. Nixon Comes Close: Our Plan Looks Like a Slam Dunk, but Ends with Just a Dunk
2. Clinton Chooses Wrong: The Colossal Defeat of Managed Competition
3. The Past Foreshadows the Present: Early Attempts with Little Success
Part 2: Expanding Health Coverage Piece by Piece
4. The Hill–Burton Program: How America's Uninsured Poor Got a Right to Free Hospital Care
5. The Three-Layer Cake: Lyndon Johnson, Wilbur Mills, and the Epic Battle to Enact Medicare
6. Ooops! The Brief Life and Death of Medicare Catastrophic
7. Ted Kennedy and the Republican Congress: HIPAA and SCHIP Add Two More Pieces to the Puzzle
8. The Unlikely Saga of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Part 3: Why Can't Americans Afford Their Health Care? The Battle to Control Health Care Costs
9. Controlling Health Costs: Many Attempts but Few Successes
10. The Last Twenty Years: Health Care Spending Keeps Growing
Part 4: Success at Last!
11. Obama Develops His Plan
12. Early Players and Done Deals
13. Baucus, Grassley, and the Gang of Six
14. The Summer of Death Panels
15. The Speaker Carries the Day
16. The Senate and the Christmas Eve Health Bill
17. Success at Last
18. How He Did It: A Political Strategy Learned from History
19. The Future is Cost Control
Epilogue
Endnotes
Glossary
Bibliography
Interviews
Index
Back Cover
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