Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care

COHEN

ISBN 10: 0190231548 / ISBN 13: 9780190231545

Published by Oxford University Press, 2015

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Synopsis:

Leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of Medicare and Medicaid and their impact on society -- from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the Affordable Care Act.

About the Author: Alan B. Cohen is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University School of Management, where he directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and Scholars in Health Policy Research Programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (University of Michigan, 2004).

David C. Colby was Vice President of Policy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a noted health services research and policy expert. His published research has focused on Medicaid and Medicare, media coverage of AIDS, political science, and civil rights. He has worked in government on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and at the Congressional Budget Office, and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Keith A. Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His recent books include: Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins, 2014); How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University, 2011); and The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007.

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a well-known commentator in the media who publishes a popular weekly column for CNN.com. Zelizer is the author and editor of fourteen books on American political history. His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin Press, 2015).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good