Oxana Gulempinchenko

Oxana s research focuses on the role of the executive power, political parties and interest groups in the political battle on health care reform during the Clinton Administration. Throughout the 20th century health care reform was in the foreground of congressional debates in the USA and it remains a top priority today. In 1992 Clinton won the presidential election with his program Putting People First , in which he promised to pay attention to the needs of the middle class and to solve crucial problems in the American health care system: expanding access to health insurance and reducing costs. In 1993 the Special Task Force headed by Hillary Clinton worked out the Health Security Act. The effort resulted in a political struggle and eventually the attempt at reform failed. In the ensuing years of the Clinton presidency the political battle continued, and during the second term several progressive laws in that sphere were enacted. Oxana will analyze the political battle on health care reform during the Clinton Administration and trace the interaction of different political institutions in relation to health care debates.