1: Introduction; 2: Historical Background; 3: Medicaid and the Balanced Budget Act of 1995; 4: Medicare—1995; 5: A Year of Transition—1996; 6: Medicare and Medicaid, 1997; 7: Implementation; 8: Old Business and New; 9: Postscript
David G. Smith
-Both political sociologists and medical sociologists... will find
that Entitlement Politics offers an interesting structural
analysis. The book provides a rich account, along with hundreds of
references to historical and policy documents of the political
process and the structure of the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
Moreover, Smith's analysis offers a provocative case study of how
structural forces influence the political process and the outcomes
of political reform efforts.- --Eric R. Wright, Contemporary
Sociology -David G. Smith's review of Medicare and Medicaid
politics between 1995 and 2001 should be a basic resource for
current and future scholars of both health politics and American
politics more generally.... [T]he evaluative overlay in this book
is only part, and not the most important part, of the author's
achievement. Entitlement Politics will not only answer most of any
reader's questions about the events it describes, but also alert
readers to questions they may not even have considered. It is
invaluable for its challenges to all sides' settled beliefs, for
its overview of the methods of political combat in the 1990s, for
its nearly unique focus on implementation, and for its careful
explication of the arguments about each policy choice.- --Joseph
White, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
"Both political sociologists and medical sociologists... will find
that Entitlement Politics offers an interesting structural
analysis. The book provides a rich account, along with hundreds of
references to historical and policy documents of the political
process and the structure of the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
Moreover, Smith's analysis offers a provocative case study of how
structural forces influence the political process and the outcomes
of political reform efforts." --Eric R. Wright, Contemporary
Sociology "David G. Smith's review of Medicare and Medicaid
politics between 1995 and 2001 should be a basic resource for
current and future scholars of both health politics and American
politics more generally.... [T]he evaluative overlay in this book
is only part, and not the most important part, of the author's
achievement. Entitlement Politics will not only answer most of any
reader's questions about the events it describes, but also alert
readers to questions they may not even have considered. It is
invaluable for its challenges to all sides' settled beliefs, for
its overview of the methods of political combat in the 1990s, for
its nearly unique focus on implementation, and for its careful
explication of the arguments about each policy choice." --Joseph
White, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
"Both political sociologists and medical sociologists... will find
that Entitlement Politics offers an interesting structural
analysis. The book provides a rich account, along with hundreds of
references to historical and policy documents of the political
process and the structure of the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
Moreover, Smith's analysis offers a provocative case study of how
structural forces influence the political process and the outcomes
of political reform efforts." --Eric R. Wright, Contemporary
Sociology "David G. Smith's review of Medicare and Medicaid
politics between 1995 and 2001 should be a basic resource for
current and future scholars of both health politics and American
politics more generally.... [T]he evaluative overlay in this book
is only part, and not the most important part, of the author's
achievement. Entitlement Politics will not only answer most of any
reader's questions about the events it describes, but also alert
readers to questions they may not even have considered. It is
invaluable for its challenges to all sides' settled beliefs, for
its overview of the methods of political combat in the 1990s, for
its nearly unique focus on implementation, and for its careful
explication of the arguments about each policy choice." --Joseph
White, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
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