The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System

by David Barton Smith

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082652107X
• ISBN13: 9780826521071
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"