h care. Individual health care is no longer a personal trouble. It has become a public concern by virtue of its increasing scope.
Two assertions by Mills are relevant to a discussion of America's resistance to health care reform, from The Power Elite and The Sociological Imagination, respectively: (1) Power in the U.S. has been centralized increasingly into the hands of a small group of men (and a sprinkling of women)--the "power elite." This elite group is composed of politicians, business people, and military personnel. Their positions at the top of pyramids of institutional power enable them to combine with other top leaders to exercise decision-making authority with nationwide and worldwide consequences; (2) Even sociologists have played into the hands of the powerful. Sociology today is being used for the benefit of the powerful at the expense of the powerless.
As Mills (1959) points out, even liberalism has been watered down by the academicians. He writes, "Liberalism has become less a reform movement than the administration of social services in
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