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Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.
Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *
"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens."
-- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *
"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended."
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The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *
"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *
"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens."
-- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *
"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended."
* Choice *
"
The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *
Table of ContentsList of Figures
List of Tables
1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance Reform
Part I
2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers
3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured
4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants
5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care
6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net Services
Part II
7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?
8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future
9. The Declining Public Hospital Sector
Part III
10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage
11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety Nets
About the Contributors
Index
