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Medicare/Medicaid
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Who Runs U.S. Health Policy? The Power of the Secretary of Health and Human Services
Behind the scenes, the HHS secretary navigates a labyrinth of competing interests: pharmaceutical lobbyists, state governors demanding federal funds, and...
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How the Programs of the Great Society Reshaped America’s Social Contract
The programs of the Great Society emerged from a confluence of political urgency and moral conviction. Johnson, who succeeded John F. Kennedy after his...
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How LBJ’s Great Society Speech Still Shapes America’s Social Contract
The speech arrived at a pivotal moment. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had just passed, but racial injustice still festered, and economic disparity yawned like a...
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How the Programs of the Great Society Reshaped America’s Social Contract
Critics often reduce the Great Society initiatives to a list of welfare expansions, overlooking how they recast the relationship between government and its...
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How Great Society Programs Reshaped America’s Social Contract
The Great Society programs were more than a collection of laws; they were a cultural and economic earthquake. Medicare and Medicaid, for instance, transformed...
