In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health in

Recounts the history of health care policy in the United States, and argues that the country became entrapped through policies that satisfied enough of the publ

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctor

Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one h

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is,