Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State

Author:   Colleen M. Grogan (Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, The University of Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   448
Publication Date:   07 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Colleen M. Grogan (Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, The University of Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.757kg
ISBN:  

9780199812233


ISBN 10:   0199812233
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   07 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: America's Expanding, Unequal and Hidden Health Care State Part I: The Emergence of a Public Health Care State: 1860-1930 Chapter 1: A Conspicuous Public Health Care State Chapter 2: Expanding the Boundaries of Public Health Chapter 3: Public Health Planning: Hope for a Unified Public-Private System Part II: The Rise of Grow & Hide: 1930-1965 Chapter 4: The New Public Health Deal Chapter 5: The Voluntary Way Hides the Role of Government Chapter 6: Solidifying the Grow and Hide Approach Part III: The Consequences of Grow & Hide: 1965-2020 Chapter 7: Fragmentation: The Failure of Health Care Planning Chapter 8: Profiteering: The Hidden Financial Industry Takeover Chapter 9: Inequality: How Medicaid is Designed to Grow and Hide Chapter 10: The ACA Embraces Grow & Hide Conclusion: Possibilities for Change Notes Index

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This blockbuster book excavates a buried truth: Health care in America is organized, constructed, and paid for by the government. Why don't Americans know that? Because, as Colleen Grogan meticulously shows, the government hides its pervasive hand. Grow and Hide is an extraordinary detective story tracing the many hidden forms of public action--and the unjust ways they tilt the system. Beautifully written, deeply researched, endlessly fascinating, and extremely important. -- James A. Morone, Brown University, and author of Hellfire Nation In this magisterial account, health policy expert Colleen Grogan puts forth the most ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of the American health care system in a generation. She shows how the myth of a predominant private sector emerged, how it hides the government's vast role, and how it is fanned for great profit by a multitude of health sector actors, most recently private equity. Along the way, she illuminates important facets of health policy that the usual accounts miss but that are patterned by the same rhetorical myth. Grogan offers an insightful, original account of the American health care tragedy: spending so much, getting so little in return. -- Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Trapped in America's Safety Net Grow and Hide uncovers the hidden paradox at the heart of America's health crisis: public and private leaders celebrate the 'private' medical sector even as government at all levels props it up, makes the public health investments it shortchanges, and finances the lion's share of its exorbitant costs. To fix this giant mess, we must see it--and Colleen Grogan brilliantly brings its full scope out of hiding. -- Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, and author of The Great Risk Shift Grow and Hide is deeply informed and indispensable reading. Colleen Grogan masterfully debunks fundamental and self-undermining myths about the historical development, contemporary structure, financing, and politics of US health care and public health. Her poignant and creative recasting of health policy offers novel insights that are critical for envisioning a more healthy and equitable future--especially for those who are most vulnerable. -- Jamila Michener, Cornell University, and author of Fragmented Democracy In this compelling book, Grogan synthesizes and augments several generations of scholarship on the history of organizing and financing healthcare in the United States since the early twentieth century. She demonstrates that the growing size and effectiveness of the health sector has been, primarily, a result of public policy and funding that has been obscured by mythology that exaggerates the role of individuals and organizations in the private and non-profit sectors. Grow and Hide is a significant contribution to the literature on the history of what Grogan describes, appropriately, as the American health care state. -- Daniel M. Fox, President Emeritus, Milbank Memorial Fund


This blockbuster book excavates a buried truth: Health care in America is organized, constructed, and paid for by the government. Why don't Americans know that? Because, as Colleen Grogan meticulously shows, the government hides its pervasive hand. Grow and Hide is an extraordinary detective story tracing the many hidden forms of public action-and the unjust ways they tilt the system. Beautifully written, deeply researched, endlessly fascinating, and extremely important. * James A. Morone, Brown University, and author of Hellfire Nation * In this magisterial account, health policy expert Colleen Grogan puts forth the most ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of the American health care system in a generation. She shows how the myth of a predominant private sector emerged, how it hides the government's vast role, and how it is fanned for great profit by a multitude of health sector actors, most recently private equity. Along the way, she illuminates important facets of health policy that the usual accounts miss but that are patterned by the same rhetorical myth. Grogan offers an insightful, original account of the American health care tragedy: spending so much, getting so little in return. * Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Trapped in America's Safety Net * Grow and Hide uncovers the hidden paradox at the heart of America's health crisis: public and private leaders celebrate the 'private' medical sector even as government at all levels props it up, makes the public health investments it shortchanges, and finances the lion's share of its exorbitant costs. To fix this giant mess, we must see it-and Colleen Grogan brilliantly brings its full scope out of hiding. * Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, and author of The Great Risk Shift * Grow and Hide is deeply informed and indispensable reading. Colleen Grogan masterfully debunks fundamental and self-undermining myths about the historical development, contemporary structure, financing, and politics of US health care and public health. Her poignant and creative recasting of health policy offers novel insights that are critical for envisioning a more healthy and equitable future-especially for those who are most vulnerable. * Jamila Michener, Cornell University, and author of Fragmented Democracy * In this compelling book, Grogan synthesizes and augments several generations of scholarship on the history of organizing and financing healthcare in the United States since the early twentieth century. She demonstrates that the growing size and effectiveness of the health sector has been, primarily, a result of public policy and funding that has been obscured by mythology that exaggerates the role of individuals and organizations in the private and non-profit sectors. Grow and Hide is a significant contribution to the literature on the history of what Grogan describes, appropriately, as the American health care state. * Daniel M. Fox, President Emeritus, Milbank Memorial Fund *


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Colleen M. Grogan is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor at the University of Chicago. Grogan's research focuses on health policy and politics with a primary focus on the US health care system and its complex entitlement programs. She is the author of Healthy Voices/ Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor and numerous articles that focus on elite decision-making around America's Medicaid program and offer a fundamentally new way to view the politics of the program. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served on its COVID-19 Policy Translation Task Force. Grogan's work has been covered by The Washington Post, NPR, and The Guardian.

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