Description: The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States
Review Quotes:
"Readers of "Inquiry" have long been aware of the work of Rosemary Stevens, one of the most insightful medical historians of our time. "The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Policy" includes 17 of Stevens' essays, spanning a 40-year period from 1961 to 2001. It is a collection that will reward the attention of anyone who cares about American health policy, where it has come from, and where it is going."
- Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., INQUIRY
"The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy is a clooection of thoughtful essays developed over a 40-year period by the author, who views herself primarily as a historian with an extroadinary interest in health policy.....Rosemary Stevens has written an incisive and important book."
- Patrick H. DeLeon, American Psychological Association