The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Published by Vanderbilt University Press, 2016
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- Title
- The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
- Author
- Smith, David Barton
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826521061
- ISBN 13
- 9780826521064
- Item weight
- 574 grams
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.
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