Policy legacies and the potential for radical surgery on health‐care systerns

“Forces in the broader political arena have periodically opened windows of opportunity for major policy change in the health care arena. The systems that resulted were largely, if not entirely, ‘accidents' of the timing of their births.” Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Edited by carolyn hughes tuohy. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. 312.