List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: The World that Medicare and Medicaid Made ; Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer ; Part I: Origins, Vision, and the Challenge of Implementation ; The Contentious Origins of Medicare and Medicaid ; Julian Zelizer ; Civil Rights and Medicare: Historical Convergence and Continuing Legacy ; David Barton Smith ; Looking Back: The Early Days of Medicaid and Medicare ; Rashi Fein ; The Road Not Taken: What Happened to Medicare for All? ; Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore Marmor ; Part II: The Remaking of Values, Relationships, and Society ; The Transformation of Medicaid from Poor Law Legacy to Middle-Class Entitlement? ; Jill Quadagno ; How the Courts Created the Medicaid Entitlement ; Sara Rosenbaum ; Medicare and the Social Transformations of American Elders ; Mark Schlesinger ; Part III: Retrenchment, Reform, and Reaction ; The Third Rail of Politics? Medicare's Untouchability ; Mark Peterson ; Medicare Innovations in the War Over the Key to the U.S. Treasury ; Uwe E. Reinhardt ; Medicaid Rising: The Perils and Potential of Federalism ; Frank Thompson ; Independence and Freedom: Public Opinion and the Politics of Medicare and Medicaid ; Andrea Louise Campbell ; Part IV: The Road to Affordable Care ; The Era of Big Government: Why It Never Ended ; Keith Wailoo ; Built to Last? Policy Entrenchment and Regret in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act ; Paul Starr ; The Missing Piece: Medicare, Medicaid, and Long-Term Care ; Judith Feder ; From Servant to Master? Medicare, Cost Control, and the Future of American Health Care ; Jacob Hacker ; Part V: Looking Ahead ; Medicare in American Political History: The Rise and Fall of Social Insurance ; James Morone and Elizabeth Fauquert ; Conclusion ; Alan Cohen, David Colby, Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer

"This book provides keen insights into two pillars of America's health insurance system, Medicare and Medicaid. The essays by leading health policy experts describe fifty years of evolution in these landmark programs. This collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the history of health policy in the United States." -- Congressman Henry Waxman "Medicare and Medicaid are massive and complex programs that are most often studied in pieces-how this program affects that constituent group, how these providers are reacting to that policy, etc. In this new book, these two programs are examined from the varied perspectives of law, politics, history, economics, and sociology. This kind of eclectic approach is important in developing a deeper understanding of these programs and their potential for the future." -- Darin Gordon, President of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (2013-2014) "In this remarkable collection many of our most distinguished analysts of U.S. health politics and policy offer fresh, provocative, and illuminating commentaries on the origins and development of Medicare and Medicaid in the context of the Affordable Care Act. Scholars, students, and citizens have much to learn from this insightful volume." -- Eric M. Patashnik, Director, Center for Health Policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA "This volume, with contributions from the leading practitioners in health policy, does a masterful job of explaining the politics and history of the Medicare and Medicaid programs on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary. From these perceptive essays, readers learn why Medicare and Medicaid have survived for half a century and why they must figure into any future discussion of health care reform." -- Edward Berkowitz, Professor of History and Public Policy, George Washington University "Fifty years ago, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted to help America meet the moral test of caring for its most vulnerable citizens-the children, the elderly, the sick, the needy, and the disabled. This volume of essays explores whether or not Medicare and Medicaid today remain true to that vision. Written for a general audience, this book is a 'must read' for policymakers and private citizens alike." -- Donald Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2010-2011) "Health-care policy is as difficult to master as it is vital to the country's future; there is no better place for politicians and students to begin their education on the subject than this judiciously assembled, thoughtfully edited, and lucidly written collection." -- Foreign Affairs "Both serious and casual students of health care policy and medical organization will find this book worthwhile and eminently readable." -the American Library Association

"This book provides keen insights into two pillars of America's health insurance system, Medicare and Medicaid. The essays by leading health policy experts describe fifty years of evolution in these landmark programs. This collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the history of health policy in the United States." -- Congressman Henry Waxman "Medicare and Medicaid are massive and complex programs that are most often studied in pieces-how this program affects that constituent group, how these providers are reacting to that policy, etc. In this new book, these two programs are examined from the varied perspectives of law, politics, history, economics, and sociology. This kind of eclectic approach is important in developing a deeper understanding of these programs and their potential for the future." -- Darin Gordon, President of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (2013-2014) "In this remarkable collection many of our most distinguished analysts of U.S. health politics and policy offer fresh, provocative, and illuminating commentaries on the origins and development of Medicare and Medicaid in the context of the Affordable Care Act. Scholars, students, and citizens have much to learn from this insightful volume." -- Eric M. Patashnik, Director, Center for Health Policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA "This volume, with contributions from the leading practitioners in health policy, does a masterful job of explaining the politics and history of the Medicare and Medicaid programs on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary. From these perceptive essays, readers learn why Medicare and Medicaid have survived for half a century and why they must figure into any future discussion of health care reform." -- Edward Berkowitz, Professor of History and Public Policy, George Washington University "Fifty years ago, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted to help America meet the moral test of caring for its most vulnerable citizens-the children, the elderly, the sick, the needy, and the disabled. This volume of essays explores whether or not Medicare and Medicaid today remain true to that vision. Written for a general audience, this book is a 'must read' for policymakers and private citizens alike." -- Donald Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2010-2011) "Health-care policy is as difficult to master as it is vital to the country's future; there is no better place for politicians and students to begin their education on the subject than this judiciously assembled, thoughtfully edited, and lucidly written collection." -- Foreign Affairs "Both serious and casual students of health care policy and medical organization will find this book worthwhile and eminently readable." -the American Library Association

Selling point: The first comprehensive overview of the entire fifty-year history of Medicare and Medicaid Selling point: A comprehensive collection of accessible essays examining how these programs originated, how they work, and how they are working, with extensive discussion of the political, economic, and social battles that have shadowed them Selling point: Includes essays by influential figures and public intellectuals writing today on American health politics, economics, history, sociology, law, public health, and public policy Selling point: The only book to examine these two signature social programs side-by-side, examining how their goals have intersected and how both have expanded despite political turmoil over the past fifty years

Alan B. Cohen is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University School of Management, where he directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and Scholars in Health Policy Research Programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (University of Michigan, 2004). David C. Colby is Vice President of Policy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a noted health services research and policy expert. His published research has focused on Medicaid and Medicare, media coverage of AIDS, political science, and civil rights. He has worked in government on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and at the Congressional Budget Office, and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Keith A. Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His recent books include: Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins, 2014); How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University, 2011); and The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fellow at New America. He publishes a popular weekly column for CNN.com His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin Press, 2015).

Selling point: The first comprehensive overview of the entire fifty-year history of Medicare and Medicaid Selling point: A comprehensive collection of accessible essays examining how these programs originated, how they work, and how they are working, with extensive discussion of the political, economic, and social battles that have shadowed them Selling point: Includes essays by influential figures and public intellectuals writing today on American health politics, economics, history, sociology, law, public health, and public policy Selling point: The only book to examine these two signature social programs side-by-side, examining how their goals have intersected and how both have expanded despite political turmoil over the past fifty years