Robert Stevens is master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and serves as counsel to the law firm Covington & Burling, where his practice involves international commercial law and competition law. He has also taught at Yale and Tulane Universities, and has authored many articles and books, including studies of social legislation and the legal profession in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rosemary Stevens is professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsyvlania. Educated at Oxford, Yale, and Manchester, she has also taught at Yale University and Tulane University. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest and In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century.

• I: The Coming of Medicaid; 1: Competing Welfare Philosophies and the Provision of Medical Care; 2: Public and Political Concern with Medical Care; 3: The Federal Role: An Aphilosophical Expansion; 4: Basic Provisions of Medicaid; II: The Euphoric Demise; 5: Implementation; 6: The Beginning of Disillusion; 7: Facilis Descensus Averno; III: The Storm; 8: The Scene in Washington; 9: The Scene at the State and Local Level; 10: Costs, Successes, and Scapegoats; 11: Reassessments; IV: Benign Neglect; 12: Federal Administration; 13: The States; 14: New York, California, and Illinois; 15: The Courts and the Congress; 16: Congress and the Future; Epilogue

Robert Stevens is master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and serves as counsel to the law firm Covington & Burling, where his practice involves international commercial law and competition law. He has also taught at Yale and Tulane Universities, and has authored many articles and books, including studies of social legislation and the legal profession in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rosemary Stevens is professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsyvlania. Educated at Oxford, Yale, and Manchester, she has also taught at Yale University and Tulane University. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest and In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century.

• I: The Coming of Medicaid; 1: Competing Welfare Philosophies and the Provision of Medical Care; 2: Public and Political Concern with Medical Care; 3: The Federal Role: An Aphilosophical Expansion; 4: Basic Provisions of Medicaid; II: The Euphoric Demise; 5: Implementation; 6: The Beginning of Disillusion; 7: Facilis Descensus Averno; III: The Storm; 8: The Scene in Washington; 9: The Scene at the State and Local Level; 10: Costs, Successes, and Scapegoats; 11: Reassessments; IV: Benign Neglect; 12: Federal Administration; 13: The States; 14: New York, California, and Illinois; 15: The Courts and the Congress; 16: Congress and the Future; Epilogue

Robert Stevens is master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and serves as counsel to the law firm Covington & Burling, where his practice involves international commercial law and competition law. He has also taught at Yale and Tulane Universities, and has authored many articles and books, including studies of social legislation and the legal profession in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rosemary Stevens is professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsyvlania. Educated at Oxford, Yale, and Manchester, she has also taught at Yale University and Tulane University. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest and In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century.

• I: The Coming of Medicaid; 1: Competing Welfare Philosophies and the Provision of Medical Care; 2: Public and Political Concern with Medical Care; 3: The Federal Role: An Aphilosophical Expansion; 4: Basic Provisions of Medicaid; II: The Euphoric Demise; 5: Implementation; 6: The Beginning of Disillusion; 7: Facilis Descensus Averno; III: The Storm; 8: The Scene in Washington; 9: The Scene at the State and Local Level; 10: Costs, Successes, and Scapegoats; 11: Reassessments; IV: Benign Neglect; 12: Federal Administration; 13: The States; 14: New York, California, and Illinois; 15: The Courts and the Congress; 16: Congress and the Future; Epilogue