Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface; Foreword; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgments; I: Healthcare Politics and Policy; 1. Healthcare Politics; Health Policymaking in the United States; The Health Policy Environment; The Constitutional Environment; The Institutional Environment; The Political Environment; The Changing Political Environment; The Economic Environment; The Technological Environment; Key Health Policy Actors; Healthcare Providers; Third-Party Payers; Employers; Consumers; Interest Groups; Conclusion; Study Questions

The Clinton Administration: 1993-2001The George W. Bush Administration: 2001-2009; The Barack Obama Administration: 2009-2017; The Trump Administration: 2017-; The Evolution of Public Health in the United States; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth Century; The Twenty-First Century; Organization and Functions of Public Health; Public Health Spending and Financing; Public Health Accomplishments and Challenges; Conclusion; Study Questions; References; II: Government Health Programs

3. The Affordable Care Act: Stumbling Toward Universal Health Insurance?The Road to the Affordable Care Act (2006-2008); Kingdon's Multiple Streams Model; The Political Stream; The Legislative Process: An Ordeal by Fire (2008-2010); The Opening Moves; The Legislative Process: Ideal versus Real; Political Parties at War; Moving Through Congress; The Affordable Care Act Clears the Obstacles; The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Goals and Purposes; Major Provisions; Challenging the Affordable Care Act; The Affordable Care Act on Trial; Electoral Challenges; Public Opinion

Implementing the Affordable Care ActFederalism and the Affordable Care Act; Health Insurance Exchanges; Medicaid Expansion and the States; Legislative Challenges; Administrative Challenges; Evaluating the Affordable Care Act; Insurance Coverage; Affordable Care; Criticisms of the Affordable Care Act; Conclusion; Study Questions; References; 4. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program: Healthcare for the Poor and the Disabled; Important Facts about the Current Medicaid Program; Program Objective and Structure; Medicaid Eligibility and Coverage, Services and Benefits

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