Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Understanding the dynamics of change in the health care arena
  • pt. I. Episodes of policy change
  • Ch. 2. The establishment of the welfare state in the health care arena
  • Ch. 3. The reforms of the 1990s
  • Ch. 4. Institutions, ideas, interests, actors, and the accidents of policy episodes
  • pt. II. The distinctive logics of national systems
  • Ch. 5. The United States: the logic of the mixed market
  • Ch. 6. Britain: the logic of corporatism meets the internal market
  • Ch. 7. Canada: the logic of the single-payer system
  • Ch. 8. Conclusion.