On May 4, 2017, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, the first step towards fulfilling the GOP’s promise of “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But already what used to be a winning issue for Republicans appears to be turning against them. This is but the latest shift in a rich history of healthcare in America. Host John Fea and producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling tackle this politically-charged issue. They are joined by historian Nancy Tomes who just collected one of historical scholarship’s highest honors, the Bancroft Prize, for her book Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers, out now with the University of North Carolina Press.
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Episode 44: History for Gamers
Episode 43: Reconciling the Church and Slavery
Episode 42: An American Saint
Episode 41: Populism
Episode 40: Sportianity
Episode 39: Returning to Charlottesville
Bonus Episode: *Believe Me* Book Launch
Bonus Episode: Live at Messiah College Educator's Day
Episode 38: Jesus Is the Rock That Rolls My Blues Away
Episode 37: Should You Go to Grad School?
Episode 36: The 18th-Century Atlantic World
Episode 35: Global Hockey
Episode 34: Twitterstorians
Episode 33: The Power of Sport
Episode 32: The Politics of Sex
Episode 31: Searching for Christian America in a Boston High School
Episode 30: The Evangelicals
Episode 29: Libertarianism and Democracy
Episode 28: That Memphis Sound
Episode 27: From Mount Vernon to Mar-a-Lago
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