Poor people's medicine : Medicaid and American charity care since 1965 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engel, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Antecedents: poverty and early poverty care programs
  • Precursors to Medicare and Medicaid
  • War on poverty and the genesis of Medicaid
  • Hard-to-reach groups
  • Redefining health
  • Charity care and comprehensive reform under Nixon
  • Health planning and community medicine in the 1970s
  • Health and welfare reform in the Carter White House
  • Block grants and the new federalism
  • Recovering the cuts, managed care, and comprehensive reform
  • Managed Medicaid, AIDS, and the Clinton health bill.