Falling through the cracks: poverty, insurance coverage, and hospital care for the poor, 1980 and 1982.
About one-third of the nation's poor lack insurance--public or private--against the costs of illness. Data from 1980 and 1982 show that a patchwork of state and local government charitable grants, and the disparate efforts of hospitals to provide free care, cannot mend the national "safety net." A prudent short-run approach to modifying charity care is advanced, although the long-run necessity for insuring the uninsured is inevitable.
D002608:Charities; D006291:Health Policy; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D018579:Patient Selection; D011203:Poverty; D040841:Resource Allocation; D014481:United States