Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate

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141 I n t r o d u c t I o n constructing the Health care crisis 1. Robin Toner, “Poll Says Public Favors Changes in Health Policy,” New York Times, April 6, 1993, A1; Timothy Johnson, “Town with a Heart: Small Town Fights Health Care Crisis,” 20/20, December 26, 2003. 2. See Bruce Kuklick, The Good Ruler: From Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon; Thomas Langston, With Reverence and Contempt; Daniel T. Rodgers, Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence; and Rita Charon, “Narrative Medicine : A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust,” 1898. 3. Robert Alford, “The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics Without Change”; Godfrey Hodgson, “The Politics of America Health Care: What Is It Costing You?”; Stephen Shortell and Walter McNerney, “Criteria and Guidelines for Reforming the U.S. Health Care System.” 4. Cindy Jajich-Toth and Burns W. Roper, “Americans’ Views on Health Care: A Study in Contradictions”; Robert J. Blendon et al., “Americans’ Health Priorities: Curing Cancer and Controlling Costs”; Jon Gabel, Howard Cohen, and Steven Fink, “Americans’ Views on Health Care: Foolish Inconsistencies?”; ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today, Health Care in America 2006 Survey Chartpack; Robert J. Blendon and John Benson, “Understanding How Americans View Health Care Reform”; Everett Carl Ladd, “The Congress Problem”; Lawrence Brown, “Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries: Lessons for the United States,” 55. 5. Joel Best, Random Violence: How We Talk About New Crimes and New Victims. 6. James A. Morone, “Nativism, Hollow Corporations, and Managed Competition: Why the Clinton Health Care Reform Failed,” 391. 7. P. M. S. Hacker, Wittgenstein, 9. 8. “The Real Health Issue,” New York Times, June 25, 1974, 36; Linda Disch, “Publicity -Stunt Participation and Sound Bite Polemics: The Health Care Debate, 1993–94,” 7; Daniel Yankelovich, “The Debate That Wasn’t: The Public and the Clinton Health Care Plan”; William Glaberson, “Struggling to Bring the Health-Care Debate Home to Readers,” New York Times, May 25, 1993, A2; Theodore R. Marmor, “A Summer of Discontent : Press Coverage of Murder and Medical Care Reform,” 499. 9. Kathy Kiely and John Fritze, “Passions Flare Up at Health Care Forums,” USA Today, August 10, 2009, A4; Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas, “How to Break Up Town Brawls,” USA Today, August 20, 2009, A11; Bill Lambrecht, “Tempers Run High at Forums on Reform of Health Care,” Providence Sunday Journal, August 9, 2009, C12; Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, “‘Un-American’ Attacks Can’t Derail Health Care Debate,” USA Today, August 10, 2009, A7; “Dishonest Debate Mars Bid to Overhaul Health Care,” USA Today, July 31, 2009, A10. 10. Murray Edelman, The Symbolic Uses of Politics. 11. Charon, “Narrative Medicine,” 1897. n o t e s 142 n o t e s t o p a g e s 8 – 1 6 12. Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness; Robert B. Hackey, “Symbolic Politics and Health Care Reform in the 1940s and 1990s”; “Text of President’s Message to Congress Advocating Passage of Medical Care Bill,” New York Times, February 28, 1962, 16. 13. Richard M. Nixon, “Remarks at a Briefing on the Nation’s Health System.” 14. Hodgson, “Politics of America Health Care”; William L. Kissick, “Health Policy Directions for the 1970s,” 1343; David Kotelchuck, “The Health Status of Americans,” 5. 15. Kuklick, Good Ruler, 30. 16. John Edwards, “Press Release: Edwards Announces Plan for Universal Health Care”; John McCain, “Text of McCain Speech on Health Care,” Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2007. 17. Harold M. Schmeck, “A Plan to Insure Health Care for All,” New York Times, July 12, 1970, E5; Harry Smith and Lester Holt, “The Health Care Crisis in Chicago,” CbS This Morning, July 10, 1990. See also David C. Colby and Timothy Cook, “Epidemics and Agendas: The Politics of Nightly News Coverage of AIDS.” 18. John M. Broder, Robert Pear, and Milt Freudenheim, “Problem of Lost Health Benefits Is Reaching into the Middle Class,” New York Times, November 25, 2002, A1; “The No. 1 Worry,” Des Moines Register, October 12, 2004; “Health Care Reform: A Pill Too Bitter for U.S. to Swallow,” USA Today, October 17, 2006, 17. 19. Joseph Turow and Rachel Gans, As Seen on TV: Health Policy Issues in TV’s Medical Dramas; Allison Waldman, “Dramas Deliver Medical Messages: Fiction Programming Can Create Awareness of Health Care, Diseases”; Victoria Rideout, Television as a Health Educator: A Case Study of “Grey’s Anatomy”; Candace Cummins Gauthier, “Television Drama and Popular Film as Medical Narrative”; Mollyann...