Presidential healthcare reform rhetoric : continuity, change & contested values from Truman to Obama / Noam Schimmel.
This book analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the four Democratic presidents, Truman, Johnson, Clinton and Obama, who tried to expand access to and affordability of healthcare in the United States. It considers how they made such arguments, the ethics they advanced, and the vision of Amer...
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Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Rhetoric, politics, and society series.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: History of American Liberal and Conservative Healthcare Rhetoric and Public Policy
- Chapter 3: Methodology and Theory: The Social Imaginary and its Moral Order
- Chapter 4: Harry Truman's November 19, 1945 Address to Congress on Healthcare Reform
- Chapter 5: Lyndon Baines Johnson's Remarks at the Signing of the Medicare Bill, July 30, 1965 and Related Speeches
- Chapter 6: Bill Clinton's September 22, 1993 Address on Healthcare Reform to Congress
- Chapter 7: Barack Obama's September 9, 2009 Healthcare Speech to Congress
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Bibliography.