Contextual uses prove.
David A. Rochefort & Kevin P. Donnelly 12, Rochefort is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University; Donnelly received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2009 focusing on health policy and political language, is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Bridgewater State University, “Preface,” Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us about next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care, Routledge, 2012, pp. 13–14
For someone aiming to move from the shadows into the main pack of contenders for his party’s nomination, it was a curious position for Cain to stake out, or at least to stake out in these rhetorical terms. The truth is that mainstream American political leaders rarely advocate for change by recommending the United States copy policies from other countries.
This book is about health care, not Social Security, and in no realm has American resistance to foreign policies and philosophies become more evident over time. Economically developed nations have many problems in common in the delivery, financing, and management of health services. They also confront similar disease patterns and technology advancements, with all the mixed blessings that come with the latter. Yet this shared experience and the interventions it has inspired have not influenced the formulation of U.S. health policy to a great extent. Despite urging from a number of experts, officials have typically neglected—indeed, they have often openly rejected—the lessons of comparative policy analysis in favor of uniquely American approaches to the task of health reform.