Volume 41, Number 10 · May 26, 1994
For Their Own Good
By Alan Brinkley
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
by Theda Skocpol
Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 714 pp., $34.95
Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered
by Thomas H. Eliot, edited and with an introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith
Northeastern University Press, 169 pp., $24.95
If President Clinton's health care reform proposal becomes law in anything like the form he has proposed, it will be the first genuinely universal system of social insurance in American history, and a striking departure from all previous efforts to build and expand the welfare state. For until now, virtually all American social welfare policies have taken one of two quite different forms, separate and unequal.
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