A01=Edward D. Berkowitz
Author_Edward D. Berkowitz
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801841286
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 1991
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Describing the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how Social Security became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He also explores the question of national health insurance, noting that the U.S. outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of two to one, and yet millions of Americans remain without health insurance.
Edward D. Berkowitz, professor of history at George Washington University, has participated in the making of social welfare policy as a policy analyst at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as a senior staffmember of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He is the author of Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped.
