Poor people's medicine
Subtitle: Medicaid and American charity care since 1965
By: Jonathan Engel.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Medicaid -- History; Medicare -- History; Poor -- Medical care; Health services accessibility; Medicaid -- history; Health Policy -- United States; Health Services Accessibility -- United States; Poverty -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antecedents: poverty and early poverty care programs; title: Precursors to Medicare and Medicaid; title: War on poverty and the genesis of Medicaid; title: Hard-to-reach groups; title: Redefining health; title: Charity care and comprehensive reform under Nixon; title: Health planning and community medicine in the 1970s; title: Health and welfare reform in the Carter White House; title: Block grants and the new federalism; title: Recovering the cuts, managed care, and comprehensive reform; title: Managed Medicaid, Aids, and the Clinton health bill.