-I can think of no one more fitting to provide the broad perspective on the City's health system, as well as a specific analysis of the current state of affairs.- --James R. Tallone, Jr., President, United Hospital Fund

For the three decades since passage of Medicare and Medicaid, health care service to the American people has expanded. Relatively few studies have assessed the extent to which access to health care have actually improved for specific groups, such as the poor and the middle class. This book is an in-depth assessment of the extent to which Medicare and Medicaid have...