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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Engel, Jonathan.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Description:	xx, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medicaid -- History. Medicare -- History. Poor -- Medical care. Health services accessibility. Medicaid -- history. Health Policy -- United States. Health Services Accessibility -- United States. Poverty -- United States. Health services accessibility. Medicaid. Medicare. Poor -- Medical care. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5892982

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ISBN:	0822336839 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822336952 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-302) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Antecedents: Poverty and Early Poverty Care Programs
2. Precursors to Medicare and Medicaid
3. War on Poverty and the Genesis of Medicaid
4. Hard-to-Reach Groups
5. Redefining Health
6. Charity Care and Comprehensive Reform under Nixon
7. Health Planning and Community Medicine in the 1970s
8. Health and Welfare Reform in the Carter White House
9. Block Grants and the New Federalism
10. Recovering the Cuts, Managed Care, and Comprehensive Reform
11. Managed Medicaid, AIDS, and the Clinton Health Bill
12. Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index