Abstract
This chapter argues that diminishing the scope of inequality in U.S. health care has little to do with comprehensive, enfolding policy that routs inequality. Rather, it has much to do with incremental measures won by myriad coalitions that work their way slowly down lists of inequities that are, literally, infinite. Incrementalism in U.S. health policy is not that it is the best, or even a very good, approach, but rather that it is, politically, as good as it gets.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair |
| Subtitle of host publication | Health Care and the Good Society |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199850204 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195170665 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 3 Oct 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Health care
- Health policy
- Incrementalism
- Inequality
- Inequities