> Hesitate to recommend my own stuff - but the book from my own doctoral
thesis came out in 1990 and was entitled U.S. Health Politics: Public
Policy and Political Theory (Avebury (Gower), Aldershot; and Burlington,
Vermont)
It was not about the Carter admin., but covered inter alia the failure to
pass national health insurance or other significant reform in the 1970s
and to a lesser extent the 1980s, and looked at the main Congressional
bills at the time - as well as the 'health planning' legislation (such as
it was) of the 1970s, reversed in the main in the 1980s with the rise of
both Reagan and the belief in 'the market as the answer.'
I'd love to hear about the Carter admin. from Peter, as head of health
policy there: altho' I know a bit about the Nixon and then Reagan times,
all I really remember (badly) now about Carter in this regard was his
attempt at cost-containment....I recall that people said that the
Kenndy-Mills bill of 1974 (ie pre-Carter) was the last semi-possible
chance of NHI coming out of Congress.....
.........and I welcome any restoration of the Carter admin.'s reputation;
his was an unfairly-maligned Presidency....he had the misfortune to be in
office when the Anglo-American world was turning Right (a fact disguised
temporarily in the USA by the post-Watergate Republican travails in the
mid-1970s including Carter's victory over Ford)......and also of course
when the 'Iranian students' hijacked the last bit of his Presidency!!
Best, Calum
Adam,
>
> She might find my book "Jimmy Carter: From Plains to the
> Post-Presidency" published by Simon and Schuster helpful. Also if she
> wants
> to e-mail me I can provide some general information about Carter's health
> policy (I was head of health policy in the Carter White House.).
>
> Best
>
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:04 PM
> Subject: FW: Carter books or sources?
>
>
> I have the following student in my class this term. Can anyone recommend
> any good sources for her. I'm being lazy, I know, but I'm speaking to
> the experts...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goldstein,BL (pgt)
> Sent: 16 January 2009 19:03
> To: Oliver,AJ
> Subject: Carter books or sources?
>
>
> Dr. Oliver:
>
> I attended your US Health Policy lecture on Thursday, and mentioned to
> you that I am doing my dissertation around the topic of US health policy
> and the politics of reform. Would you have any recommendations for
> books or other sources on Carter's attempts for reform or agenda for
> health policy?
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Beth Goldstein
>
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