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The health care market is politically unique according to the Weisserts. In this update of the 2006 edition incorporating discussion of the Obama administration's health policy reform initiative, political scientists WG Weissert (Florida State U.; emeritus, U. of Michigan School of Public Health) and CS Weissert (Florida State U.) provide a much-needed primer on how the Federal government makes health policy. They trace the history of health policy, and discuss the keys players and factors in the high cost of U.S. health care. Includes recent statistics and new theoretical perspectives on policy change. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Governing Health examines health care policy from a political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments help define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions. William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert provide a highly readable and comprehensive synthesis of political science research on how government and private institutions affect the policy process. Extensive reviews of the policies that have governed health care since Lyndon Johnson's administration are capped off with a prognosis for the future.Updates to the fourth edition of Governing Health include • new examples and theory perspectives• recent statistics• discussion of the 2010 Obama health reform
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