When “Both Sides” are Not Enough: The Restricted Debate over Health Care Reform

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-419
Author(s):  
John Canham-Clyne
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Single Payer ◽  
Reform Debate

In covering the health care reform debate, the major news outlets go out of their way to avoid mentioning a Canadian-style single-payer reform as a progressive alternative to the Clinton plan.

Selling Cost Containment

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-119
Author(s):  
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost ◽  
Sandra J. Tanenbaum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Cost Containment ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Payer

Health care expenditures in the United States have continued to grow despite efforts to control them. This Article discusses the need for health care reform, outlines the model that reform should follow, and considers why the United States has not progressed toward a workable solution. It introduces a single-payer approach to cost containment and explains how such an approach could be “sold” in the United States. Finally, the Article examines various ways to mobilize support for such health care reform.

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