Health care and medical practice in the new world (1600-1800)
Health care and regulation in antebellum America (1800-1860)
The professionalization of American medicine (1860-1890)
Health care in the progressive era (1890-1920)
The struggle over health insurance between the wars (1920-1940)
Partisan jousting over health care in the postwar era (1940-1960)
Medicare changes the health care landscape (1960-1980)
Restraining health care costs in the age of Reagan (1980-1990)
The Clinton health plan and scorched-earth politics (1990-2000)
Controversial policy prescriptions for American health care (2000-2010).
U.S. health policy and politics : a documentary history by Kevin Hillstrom. ISBN 9781608710263. Published by CQ in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.