(Conversations in Medicine and Society.) By Rick Mayes. 207 pp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2004. $26.95. ISBN 0-472-11457-3.
Observers of the U.S. health care scene cannot help but be perplexedby the enigma of a system of funding health care that leavesso many patients financially vulnerable, in spite of per capitaspending on medical care that is almost twice that of the averageindustrialized nation. We tend to look for relatively simplisticexplanations of this phenomenon, but most theories are too narrowlyfocused to provide adequate enlightenment. In contrast, in thisbook, Rick Mayes provides a political history of the reformmovement that demonstrates why it seems almost improbable thatnational health insurance ever could have reached . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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