Differential diagnoses : a comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France / Paul V. Dutton.

Ithaca ; London : ILR Press : Cornell University Press, 2007.

xi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Common ideals, divergent nations -- Health insurance and the rise of private-practice medicine, 1915-1930 -- Health security, the state, and civil society, 1930-1940 -- Challenges and change during the Second World War, 1940-1945 -- Labor's quest for health security, 1945-1960 -- The choice of public or private, 1950-1970 -- Cost control moves to the fore, 1970-2000 -- Hospitals and the difficult art of health care reform, 1980-present -- Les jeux sont faits? : 2000-present.

Includes bibliographical references and index.