Chapter 1 Anticipated Consequences:Historians, History, and Health Policy.

Chapter 1 of the book "History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In," edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg and Lawton R. Burns is presented. It explores the history of the American health policy. It discusses the understanding about the ideological invocations of the past on the health policy of the country. It highlights the conflicts that continuously shape the American health care system.