Description: 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
Brief description:
Robert Stevens is master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and serves as counsel to the law firm Covington & Burling, where his practice involves international commercial law and competition law. He has also taught at Yale and Tulane Universities, and has authored many articles and books, including studies of social legislation and the legal profession in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Review Quotes:
""Welfare Medicine in America" is a comprehensive, policy-dense case study analysis of the Medicaid program from its genesis and passage as Title XIX of the Social Security Act of 1965, to its implementation in the late 1960s and its administration during the growing period of economic problems in 1973."
--Jonathan Gilbride, "Nursing History Review"