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001 2015042860
003 DLC
005 20151107083722.0
008 151102s2016 tnu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015042860
020 $a9780826521064 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780826521071 (paperback : alk. paper)
020 $z9780826521088 (ebook)
035 $a(DNLM)101671318
040 $aDNLM/DLC$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRA412.4
060 10 $aWT 11 AA1
082 00 $a368.4/200973$223
100 1 $aSmith, David Barton,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe power to heal :$bcivil rights, Medicare, and the struggle to transform America's health care system /$cDavid Barton Smith.
263 $a1607
264 1 $aNashville, Tennessee :$bVanderbilt University Press,$c[2016]
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFormative years -- Backbone -- Better part of valor -- "Children's Crusade" -- Casualties -- Seen the glory.
520 $a"In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need.The book draws the reader into the struggles of the unsung heroes of the transformation, black medical leaders whose stubborn courage helped shape the larger civil rights movement. They demanded an end to federal subsidization of discrimination in the form of Medicare payments to hospitals that embraced the "separate but equal" creed that shaped American life during the Jim Crow era. Faced with this pressure, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations tried to play a cautious chess game, but that game led to perhaps the biggest gamble in the history of domestic policy. Leaders secretly recruited volunteer federal employees to serve as inspectors and an invisible army of hospital workers and civil rights activists to work as agents, making it impossible for hospitals to get Medicare dollars with mere paper compliance. These triumphs did not come without casualties, yet the story offers lessons and hope for realizing this transformational dream.This book is the recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine"--Provided by publisher.
650 12 $aMedicare$xhistory.
650 22 $aCivil Rights$xhistory$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHealth Care Reform$xhistory$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century$zUnited States.
650 22 $aPolitics$zUnited States.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSmith, David Barton, author.$tPower to heal$dNashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]$z9780826521088$w(DLC) 2015043941