1st Edition
Welfare Medicine in America A Case Study of Medicaid
By Rosemary A. Stevens
Copyright 2003
430 Pages
by
Routledge
430 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
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The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population. It is a huge program-in the same period it consumed over nine billion dollars of public funds. And Medicaid is, in many ways, the most direct involvement with the provision of medical care undertaken by either the federal government or... Read more
I: The Coming of Medicaid; 1: Competing Welfare Philosophies and the Provision of Medical Care; 2: Public and Political Concern with Medical Care; 3: The Federal Role: An Aphilosophical Expansion; 4: Basic Provisions of Medicaid; II: The Euphoric Demise; 5: Implementation; 6: The Beginning of Disillusion; 7: Facilis Descensus Averno; III: The Storm; 8: The Scene in Washington; 9: The Scene at the State and Local Level; 10: Costs, Successes, and Scapegoats; 11: Reassessments; IV: Benign Neglect; 12: Federal Administration; 13: The States; 14: New York, California, and Illinois; 15: The Courts and the Congress; 16: Congress and the Future; Epilogue
Biography
Rosemary A. Stevens
