Health Care Reforms

From Roosevelt's New Deal to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the U.S. government tries to centralize the vast social policy. In the early eighties, when recession and inflation was high, Ronald Reagan came to power and announced that the federal government should take a lesser role in Life of the American people. As Theda Skocpol comments in his book, Boomerang: Clinton's health security effort and turn against the U.S. government's policy, the Reagan administration instilled dislike of centralized control in the American people. This was the main reason for Skocpol, why the Clinton administration failed to nationalize "health security". It ...