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Read The Congressional Graveyard For Health Care Reform The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care Reform - Alternative Formats Answer the Content and Critical Thinking Questions below. Your answers should be in complete sentences and organized into paragraphs when appropriate. For the Critical Thinking Questions, you will want to perform additional research.

Context Questions:

1. What are the three sources of health inequality?

2. Who was the first U.S. President to push for national, compulsory health insurance?

3. Describe the differences between "majoritarian" democratic governments and "consensus" democratic governments.

4. What are the three dimensions of coalition building?

5. What three strategies have been available to U.S. presidents interested in health care reform?

6. What four avenues could President Clinton have taken to secure a "win" in health care reform?

Critical Thinking Questions:

1. What conditions does the author contend are needed to reform health care under the current system? Explain.

2. How were these conditions present during the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

3. How did the Obama Administration avoid the pitfalls and failures to enact health care reform?

4. Review the beginnings of the Trump Administration and the efforts of the Republican-led Congress to repeal/replace the Affordable Care Act. Apply what you have learned in the Peterson article and discuss why the Republican-led Congress was unable to make significant changes to the Affordable Care Act.