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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 362.10973 EAN: 9780316111454 ISBN: 0316111457 Label: Back Bay Books Manufacturer: Back Bay Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 704 Publication Date: April 01, 1997 Publisher: Back Bay Books Studio: Back Bay Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The authors of this text seek to show in detail how "the system" has corrupted America's political institutions. They take as an example the Clinton healthcare reform initiative - the most ambitious call for US government action since the 1960s. Granted access to meetings by Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senators Bob Dole, Edward Kennedy and Newt Gingrich amongst others, the authors use the proceedings and the healthcare plan to provide a blow-by-blow account of the destruction of a policy which sought to please everyone and ended by satisfying no-one. They argue this was due to interstate pressure groups, party political bickering, political gamesmanship and the sheer inertia of the American "system". Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Classic political process bookPerhaps only Showdown at Gucci Gulch matches The System for a true focus on how big-time policy really gets enacted - or doesn't as the Clinton health care drive shows. Whereas the Gucci Gulch focused on Reagan's 1986 tax policy overhaul success, The System follows President Clinton's efforts to revamp healthcare in America. What makes The System more representative of the political process than Gucci Gulch is that healthcare reform failed. Because of Clinton management inexperience, and Gingrich ... Read More Rating:  - CREDIBLE?I read this book a few years ago as a requirement for my Master's degree in public administration. I read along with interest because the story that unfolded read like some sort of sordid drama, like something you might see on prime time television. It had suspense, intrigue, and some of the most stunning ups and downs. And all this from a book that attempts to comprehensively explain the hopeful beginnings and hopeless endings of the Clintons' (both Bill and more specifically Hillary) attempts to implement ... Read More Rating:  - Our rulers speak. Pay attention, proles!If you read this book in the wrong frame of mind, you won't like it. The wrong frame is to believe that it consists of honest reporting about the U.S. health care system, and the Clinton health bill of `93. It's mainly not reporting. It's advocacy. The key is found in the intro, where the authors define "The System" that rules USAmerica -- which includes the Presidency, the Congress, the media ... AHH! The fact that they think the media is part of the govt., just not elected, is itself worth ... Read More Rating: - Stunning inside look at politicsThe Clinton Health Care plan was a bold, dramatic attempt to transform the American health care system to take into account the fact that while America may provide the best health care in the world, far too many of its citizens are unable to afford it. Clinton's attempt, probably the most dramatic attempt at a government program since the Great Society, failed miserably and helped to elect a Republican Congress. The battle the voters didn't see was the important one- the battle which nearly sank ... Read More Rating: - Shows Politics As the Messy But Necessary Evil It IsThis is an excellent book for any student of the political process. The authors are biased. They believe the Hillary Clinton health care plan should have been enacted and present their study from this point of view. Their slant is annoying. However, it ultimately does not detract too much from a very able telling of the conceptualization, selling, manuevering and strategy employed by both sides over the struggle to socialize medicine in the United States. Although never pretty or highminded ... Read More 
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