Boomerang
Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government
24 September 1997
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
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.