San Antonio College Library

"America's current system of health insurance, which relies almost exclusively on employer-sponsored coverage, is in danger of collapse, and this problem is not limited to the poor and working class. An increasing number of middle-class Americans do not have employer-provided insurance and - due to skyrocketing premiums - cannot afford to purchase coverage for themselves. Reinsuring Health, by economist Katherine Swartz, examines this growing national...

This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy -- universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism....