The Political Contest over Health Care Resumes
- 5 March 1987
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 316 (10) , 639-644
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198703053161030
Abstract
The long, painful process of reconciling society's preference for low taxes and limited government with its steadfast support of a broad range of publicly funded services will continue this year, with medical care in the eye of the Reagan administration's budget-cutting storm. But the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches has shifted in a direction that will lead to closer scrutiny of the administration's stringent health policies and perhaps to a modicum of relief.The administration, weakened by revelations about its foreign-policy misadventures and faced with a restive Congress that increasingly fears the political repercussions of Reagan's . . .Keywords
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