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Poor people's medicine : Medicaid and American charity care since 1965 / Jonathan Engel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Jonathan.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicaid--History.
- Medicaid.
- Medicare--History.
- Medicare.
- Poor--Medical care.
- Poor.
- Health services accessibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A national and state-by-state history of public health options for the American poor.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022219
- 9781283022217
- 1283022214
- 9780822387633
- 0822387638
- OCLC:
- 609352209
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