Boomerang
Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government
24 September 1997
Description
How did the debate on health reform turn into the most concerted attack on government in recent American history?
In this incisive account, a prize-winning social scientist offers deep insights into the changing terrain of U.S. politics and public policy. Because of far-reaching changes in the Reagan era, Theda Skocpol shows, the Clinton Health Security bill became a perfect foil for antigovernment mobilization. Thus its defeat provides a unique window into the new political landscape.
Reviews
"A grim yet instructive diagnosis of what ails the American body politic." — Robert Schmuhl, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Remarkably thorough and perceptive. . . . [A] major contribution." — Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, author of The End of Reform
"Painfully honest and insightful. [Boomerang] forces progressives to ask fundamental questions about their theoretical assumptions. . . ." — Stanley B. Greenberg, author of Middle Class Dreams
Also By: Theda Skocpol 
The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
Paperback, 2001
An eye-opening look at how America’s social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.