Includes bibliographical references and index.

Politics and policy analysis: fundamentals / Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor -- What's special about health care and its politics? / Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor -- American health care policy and politics: the promise and perils of reform / Theodore R. Marmor -- Medicare's future: fact, fiction, and folly / Theodore R. Marmor and Gary J. McKissick -- From church to garage / Rudolf Klein -- The politics of the big bang / Rudolf Klein -- The politics of universal health insurance: lessons for and from the 1990s / Theodore R. Marmor and Morris L. Barer -- Fads in medical care policy and politics: the rhetoric and reality of managerialism / Theodore R. Marmor -- The politics of medical inflation / Theodore R. Marmor, Donald A. Wittman, and Thomas C. Heagy -- The great transformation / Rudolf Klein -- O'Goffe's tale: or, what can we learn from the success of the capitalist welfare states? / Rudolf Klein -- Values, institutions, and health policies: a comparative perspective / Theodore R. Marmor, Kieke G. H. Okma, and Stephen R. Latham -- Values talk in the (English) NHS / Rudolf Klein -- Doctors, politics, and pay disputes: "pressure group" politics revisited / Theodore R. Marmor and David Thomas -- Constitutional and distributional conflict in British medical politics: the case of general practice, 1911-1991 / Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein -- Comparative perspectives and policy learning in the world of health care / Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman, and Kieke G. H. Okma -- Learning from others: shall the last be the first? / Rudolf Klein -- Cutting waste by making rules: promises, pitfalls, and realistic prospects / Jan Blustein and Theodore R. Marmor -- The politics of health care rationing: lessons from Oregon / Jonathan Oberlander, Lawrence Jacobs, and Theodore R. Marmor -- Rationing health care: the dilemma of choice / Rudolf Klein and Patricia Day -- Viagra-a success story for rationing?: a possible blueprint for coverage of other new much-promoted drugs / Rudolf Klein and Heidrun Sturm -- The politics of participation / Rudolf Klein -- Representing consumer interests: the case of American health planning / James A. Morone and Theodore R. Marmor -- The comparative politics of contaminated blood: from hesitancy to scandal / Theodore R. Marmor, Patricia A. Dillon, and Stephen Scher -- The power of professionalism: policies for AIDS in Britain, Sweden, and the United States / Daniel M. Fox, Patricia Day, and Rudolf Klein -- Tobacco control in comparative perspective: eight nations in search of an explanation / Theodore R. Marmor and Evan S. Lieberman -- A new perspective on health: learning from Lalonde? / Theodore R. Marmor and Albert Weale -- Acceptable inequalities / Rudolf Klein.

"Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented as a kind of dialogue between the two, the book offers their recent writings on the future of Medicare; universal health insurance; conflicts of interest among physicians, regulators, and patients; and many other topics"--Provided by publisher.