Health Care Policy and Practice

Cynthia D. Moniz is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. Stephen H. Gorin is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

PART I. Where We Are and How We Got Here; Chapter 1. Efforts to Achieve Universal Health Care: From Clinton to Trump; Chapter 2. The Early Years: The Road to Employer-Based Coverage, Medicare, and Medicaid; Chapter 3. Public, Community, and Mental Health; Chapter 4. The Cost of Health Care in the U.S. and Strategies for Containment; PART II. Structure and Funding of U.S. Health, Mental Health, and Behavioral Health Care System; Chapter 5. Private Insurance and the Role of Employers; Chapter 6. Medicare; Chapter 7. Medicaid and CHIP; PART III. Policy Practice: Advancing Access to Health and Mental Health Care; Chapter 8. Social Workers and Policy Practice: Affecting Policy and Achieving Policy Action; Chapter 9. Analyzing the Problem: Access to Care; Chapter 10. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Health for People of Color; Chapter 11. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Health for Women, Children, Older Adults, and the LGBTQ Community; Chapter 12. Advocating for Policies that Improve Health: Models of Health and Health Policy