Unequal coverage : the experience of health care reform in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xi, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropologies of American medicine: culture, power, and practice Anthropologies of American medicine.
Subject:	Health care reform -- United States. Medical policy -- United States. Medical care -- United States. Health care reform. Medical care. Medical policy. Health Care Reform. Delivery of Health Care. United States. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11412918

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Other authors / contributors:	Mulligan, Jessica M., editor. Castañeda, Heide, editor.
ISBN:	9781479848737 1479848735 9781479897001 1479897000
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years since its enactment, some 20 million uninsured Americans gained access to coverage. And yet, the law remained unpopular and politically vulnerable. While the ACA extended social protections to some groups, its implementation was troubled and the act itself created new forms of exclusion. Access to affordable coverage options were highly segmented by state of residence, income, and citizenship status. Unequal Coverage documents the everyday experiences of individuals and families across the U.S. as they attempted to access coverage and care in the five years following the passage of the ACA. It argues that while the Affordable Care Act succeeded in expanding access to care, it did so unevenly, ultimately also generating inequality and stratification. The volume investigates the outcomes of the ACA in communities throughout the country and provides up-close, intimate portraits of individuals and groups trying to access and provide health care for both the newly insured and those who remain uncovered. The contributors use the ACA as a lens to examine more broadly how social welfare policies in a multiracial and multiethnic democracy purport to be inclusive while simultaneously embracing certain kinds of exclusions.

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Unequal Coverage, edited by Mulligan and Castaneda (Univ. of South Florida), is an excellent group of ethnographic studies describing the lived experiences of unfair health insurance in the United States. It is must-reading for anyone interested in understanding the Affordable Care Act and how it has impacted the population and health care providers. The editors have collected some excellent content authored by experts in health policy and health care. It is a well-researched discussion of health care reform in the US and how federal and state governments responded to the many issues impacting health maintenance and illness prevention and management. Access, cost, prioritization, and health policy implementation are all defined and illustrated in this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Sheila Carey Grossman, Fairfield University

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Unequal coverage : the experience of health care reform in the United States /

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