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By Eli Ginzberg, Howard Berliner, and Miriam Ostow. 143 pp. New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction, 1997. $32.95. ISBN 1-56000-288-3.

The system of health care for the poor in New York City is unique among U.S. cities both because of the size of the poor population and because of the city's commitment through most of this century to provide health care to those who cannot afford it. Two million New York City residents are on the Medicaid rolls, 1.5 million are uninsured, and several hundred thousand have inadequate insurance for a major illness — the total of approximately 3.7 million is half the population of the city. More than half of those covered by Medicaid are treated in voluntary hospitals, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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