Putting politics first

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 718-723

  Hacker, Jacob S ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FEAR; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; MEDICARE; POLITICS; RESPONSIBILITY; SHORT SURVEY; TAX; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449107624     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.718     Document Type: Short Survey

References (14)

1. P. Starr and W.A. Zelman, "A Bridge to Compromise: Competition under a Budget," Health Affairs 12, Supp. (1993): 7-23.
2. Health Affairs 13, no. 1 (1994).
3. Robert Patricelli, Chamber of Commerce, to Ira Magaziner, 10 May 1993, quoted in J.S. Hacker, The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), 135.
4. Walter Zelman to Bob Boorstin, 10 March 1993, quoted in ibid., 136.
5. Paul Starr to Ira Magaziner, 3 February 1993, quoted in ibid., 128.
6. J.S. Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, revised and expanded edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
7. S. Woolhandler and D.U. Himmelstein, "Paying for National Health Insurance - and Not Getting It," Health Affairs 21, no. 4 (2002): 88-98.
8. H.J. Aaron, "Budget Crisis, Entitlement Crisis, Health Care Financing Problem - Which Is It?" Health Affairs 26, no. 6 (2007): 1622-1633.
9. In a February 2007 poll, for example, 64 percent of respondents agreed that "the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans," while 27 percent disagreed. Asked to choose between universal coverage and maintaining recent tax cuts, 76 percent chose universal coverage, and 60 percent said that they would be willing to pay higher taxes to cover the uninsured. "New York Times/CBS News Poll," 23-27 February 2007, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/03022007_poll.pdf (accessed 29 January 2008).
10. "Are You Really Covered?" Consumer Reports, September 2007, http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/health-care/health- insurance-9-07/overview/0709_health_ov.htm (accessed 29 January 2008).
11. J.S. Hacker, "Health Care for America: A Proposal for Guaranteed, Affordable Health Care for All Americans Building on Medicare and Employment-Based Insurance," Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper no. 180, 11 January 2007, http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp180.html (accessed 29 January 2008). These estimates were done by the Lewin Group.
12. T. O'Neill and G. Hymel, All Politics Is Local: And Other Rules of the Game (New York: Crown, 1993).
13. Quoted in J.S. Hacker and P. Pierson, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005), 110.
14. In December 2007, 65 percent of Americans supported a "universal health insurance program in which everyone is covered under a program like Medicare that is run by the government and financed by taxpayers." Associated Press-Yahoo Poll, 14-20 December 2007, http://news.yahoo.com/page/ election-2008-political-pulse-voter-worries (accessed 29 January 2008). Even greater enthusiasm can be found for a play-or-pay requirement: Nearly nine of ten Democrats and four of five Independents, and even 73 percent of Republicans, expressed support. Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, June-October 2007, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/ publications_show.htm?doc_id=647816 (accessed 29 January 2008).