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

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

xx, 318 pages ; 24 cm

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.

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