How Long to Read The Wages of Sickness

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wages of Sickness?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Wages of Sickness by Beatrix Hoffman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. Beatrix Hoffman argues that this first health insurance campaign was a crucial moment in the creation of the American welfare state and health care system. Its defeat, she says, gave rise to an uneven and inegalitarian system of medical coverage and helped shape the limits of American social policy for the rest of the century. Hoffman examines each of the major combatants in the battle over compulsory health insurance. While physicians, employers, the insurance industry, and conservative politicians forged a uniquely powerful coalition in opposition to health insurance proposals, she shows, reformers' potential allies within women's organizations and the labor movement were bitterly divided. Against the backdrop of World War I and the Red Scare, opponents of reform denounced government-sponsored health insurance as "un-American" and, in the process, helped fashion a political culture that resists proposals for universal health care and a comprehensive welfare state even today.

How long is The Wages of Sickness?

The Wages of Sickness by Beatrix Hoffman is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wages of Sickness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Wages of Sickness aloud.

What Reading Level is The Wages of Sickness?

The Wages of Sickness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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