Book Review: Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The inside Story of a Century-Long Battle, the Politics of Medicaid, for the Public's Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability (original) (raw)

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2011

Abstract

Stuart Altman is the dean of American health policy scholars. For more than 40 years he has reflected, written, and taught about American health policy, working from his home at the Heller School at Brandeis University. He also, however, has played major roles in shaping our nation’s policy through his chairmanship of the Prospective Payment Advisory Commission, his membership in the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, and his advising of a series of presidents, both formally and informally, as they led health reform efforts. This book, which Altman has written with his collaborator and colleague at Brandeis, writer David Shactman, is part history, part memoir, and part economic and political analysis. Though written somewhat awkwardly in the third person, it is in large part an account of Altman’s personal experiences in shaping and analyzing health policy since the 1970s. Altman brings to the book his extensive knowledge of the relevant literature, as well as his glea...

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