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This 5 page paper discusses Jill Quadagno's book "One Nation, Uninsured," about the reasons why America has not been able to enact a national health insurance plan. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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coverage when he was in office, only to be shot down by the same special interest groups that continue to oppose it today. This paper looks at Jill Quadagnos book
One nation, uninsured, with regard to who these people are, what she has found to support her claim, and whether (if) we will ever have national health coverage, or if
it will remain out of reach. Discussion The word stakeholder literally means anyone who has a stake in the outcome of something; that includes employees, owners, managers, stockholders, shareholders, etc.
In this case, stakeholders are those who have a vested interest in making sure that a national health care system is never passed. The most prominent opponent of national health
is the American Medical Association. At least some of the reasons for opposition to a national health plan, according to Quadagno, go back to the earliest days of the 20th
century, and the uneasiness occasioned by Socialist movements in the United States, and particularly by the Russian Revolution (Quadagno, 2005). Americans were afraid that a universal health plan meant Socialism
with a capital "S," and early efforts to establish such a plan died swiftly. After WWI, unrest in the U.S. resulted in a series of labor strikes, which many people
believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwide revolution, and the idea scared Americans to death (Quadagno, 2005). They began to fear
that anarchists were out to destroy "the American way of life" (whatever that overused phrase may mean), and "[A]ny departure from conventional thought was seen as a diabolical communist plot"
(Quadagno, 2005, p. 17). The hysteria culminated in 1920, when the U.S. attorney general authorized raids on such establishments as bowling alleys and restaurants-"anyplace suspected communist sympathizers might congregate" (Quadagno,
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