Based on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed both health care and politics in America
For nearly a century, every Democratic president—and many Republicans—entered office promising to restructure America’s health care system. Barack Obama finally broke through but, in the process, opened a tumultuous decade in which battles over health care dominated American politics. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone go behind the scenes to describe how three very different presidents—pursuing very different goals—maneuvered through the fraught politics of health care.
I am the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, moved to New York (well, Staten Island) when I was nine, went to Middlebury College in Vermont, and received my PhD at the University of Chicago.
Every year, the senior class at Brown votes to give the Hazeltine Citation to the professor that most inspired them. I’m proud to have won the award five times. At Brown, I’ve chaired the university faculty, the political science department, and the public policy program. I’ve also been a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Chicago, the University of Bremen (in Germany), and at Oxford University, where I’m a regular visitor.