Product Description: Poor People’s Medicine is a detailed history of Medicaid since its beginning in 1965. Federally aided and state-operated, Medicaid is the single most important source of medical care for the poorest citizens of the United States...read more

Product Description: Blevins examines the program's origins, its evolution, and future policy options. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses Medicare's emergence as a political issue and the responses it elicited within the federal government and American society (view table of contents)

“I have some bitter disappointments as President,” reflected Harry Truman after leaving office, “but the one that has troubled me the most in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat organized opposition to a national compulsory health-insurance program.”Harry S. Truman versus the Medical Lobby by Monte M. Poen examines proposals for national health insurance from 1914 to 1965 focusing on Truman’s efforts during his presidency.