CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Marchenkova, Darya Vladimirovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Shoved down our throats: ideology and opposition to the "public option" in the 2009-2010 U.S. health care reform debate |
| Summary | Whenever a good fulfilling a right is primarily privately administered, the social right to fulfill that need enters into conflict with the firms’ legal right to make a profit from its fulfillment. This essay shows how the specific language of the June 2009 debate over the "public option" (a proposed government-run health insurance provider) created the conditions for a hierarchy of priorities in the 2009-2010 health care reform project: the designation of a vital economy, not a vital population, as the most important outcome of reform. I show how this feature is absolutely not extraordinary but crucial to the basic functioning of the U.S. liberal government. |
| Supervisor | Szalai, Julia |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/marchenkova_darya-vladimirovna.pdf |
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