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By Jill Quadagno. 274 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. $28. ISBN 0-19-516039-8.

Over the past century, powerful organizations, industries, and groups have mobilized to oppose the enactment of national health insurance in the United States. Although the players on the opposition team have changed, and their ideologies have shifted, the result has been consistent. Interest groups that have stood to lose with the extension of coverage have ensured that universal coverage would not come to pass. So writes Jill Quadagno in One Nation, Uninsured.

Quadagno, a sociologist and an unabashed advocate of universal coverage, is clearly fascinated by this history. She tells it in a readable and engaging fashion. Starting with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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