One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health InsuranceQuadagno, J., & Quadagno, J. (2006). One nation, uninsured: Why the U. S. has no national health insurance. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/detail.action?docID=281164
Read the Introduction and Chapter 1: "Doctor's Politics and the Red Menace"
This chapter looks at how the physicians mobilized against the proposals for government health insurance. This period of mobilization was from the Progressive Era to the 1950s. The chapter starts with a study of the campaign for compulsory health insurance, which was introduced during the Progressive Era and revived in 1929. It then examines the national health insurance during the postwar era and the conflict between the national health insurance campaign of the Truman administration and the Medical Lobby. The chapter also discusses the available subsidy for insurers.
