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Freshthinking the politics of paying for health reform. We spoke to jonathan oberlander, author of the political life of medicare and a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at. Jonathan oberlander, phd unc gillings school of global. Jonathan oberlander national academy of social insurance. Available in the national library of australia collection. The abcs of the health care law and its future the new. There have been a series of setpiece political battles. Oberlander is a political scientist interested in the politics of health care and health care reform. Jonathan oberlander is chair of the department of social medicine and professor in the school of medicine, and professor of health policy and management in the gillings school of global public health at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. Medica rcp is the leader of medical information in lebanon. Medicare s story begins with the failed campaign for national health insurance during the first half of the twentieth century oberlander, 20. This paper examines political feasibility and its implications for health reform. This paper explores the politics of paying for health reform. Recently there has been a surge in political attention to medicare for all, the.
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