Poor people`s medicine medicaid and American charity care since 1965

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index.

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.