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Poverty and the myths of health care reform / Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

By: Cooper, Richard, 1936-2016 [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016Description: xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421420226 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Health Policy -- economics -- United States | Poverty -- United States | Health Care Costs -- United States | Health Services Accessibility -- economics -- United States | Healthcare Disparities -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Riding the A-train : income inequality and health care consumption along New York's subway lines -- Milwaukee : a microcosm of America's social and health care crisis -- Los Angeles : high health spending amidst wealth, poverty and complexity -- Boston vs. New Haven : the big stir -- Health care costs of poverty : hands across the border -- A nation of nations : cultural foundations of health care -- Global perspectives : American exceptionalism in health care and social services -- States : communal resources and federal cross-subsidies -- The 30% solution : what you see depends on where you are standing -- Searching for solutions : #1 eliminate poverty! -- Searching for solutions : #2 looking within the health care system.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Riding the A-train : income inequality and health care consumption along New York's subway lines -- Milwaukee : a microcosm of America's social and health care crisis -- Los Angeles : high health spending amidst wealth, poverty and complexity -- Boston vs. New Haven : the big stir -- Health care costs of poverty : hands across the border -- A nation of nations : cultural foundations of health care -- Global perspectives : American exceptionalism in health care and social services -- States : communal resources and federal cross-subsidies -- The 30% solution : what you see depends on where you are standing -- Searching for solutions : #1 eliminate poverty! -- Searching for solutions : #2 looking within the health care system.

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