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(Social Problems and Social Issues.) By Jonathan Engel. 407 pp., illustrated. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2002. $24.95. ISBN 1-57003-411-7.

Doctors and Reformers is a remarkably detailed account of the "discussion and debate" over health insurance reform during the second quarter of the 20th century. As its title implies, this book is about the major legislative remedies introduced by reformers ("professional reformers, foundation executives, philanthropists, civil servants, academics, liberal politicians, fringe medical associations, prominent individuals, labor groups, and farmers' unions") and the truculent rejoinders from the doctors (organized medicine and independent physicians) over a period of 25 years.

Engel begins in the early 1920s, a period of legislative quiet following the failed lobbying efforts by the American Association for Labor . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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