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As a presidential candidate in 1976 Jimmy Carter promised to bring America universal, comprehensive national health insurance (NHI) if he became president. By the end of the decade intellectuals and policy analysts began reaching the educated public with ‘procompetition’ or ‘market-reform’ challenges to the emphasis on regulation that health policy and its analysis had developed in the early 1970s. The critiques of government regulation, and increasingly specific proposals for an alternative, were pure rhetoric in the nonpejorative sense that they were intended to be persuasive. The alternative policies suggested by these insurgents became the official policies of the Reagan administration when it came to power in January 1981.
* The author wishes to thank Richard Adinaro, Christa Altenstetter, Hanns Kuttner and Eric Ramshaw for their comments on an earlier draft of this chapter, and Ilaina Sernick for research assistance. They of course bear no responsibility for its remaining faults.
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Brandon, W.P. (1991). Two Kinds of Conservatism in US Health Policy: The Reagan Record. In: Altenstetter, C., Haywood, S.C. (eds) Comparative Health Policy and the New Right. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11777-2_7
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