Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World

MARK A. HALL is the Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Making Medical Spending Decisions and Health Care Law and Ethics.SARA ROSENBAUM is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor and founding chair of the department of health policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. An author of more than 350 articles, studies, and health policy reports, she is also a coauthor of Law and the American Health Care System.MARK A. HALL and SARA ROSENBAUM each contributed chapters to Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age, edited by David J. Rothman and David Blumenthal (Rutgers University Press).

• List of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex

"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) "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)