Social Justice and Public Health Care: How did the social justice movement of the 1960s and 1970s influence the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid
This paper examines how the social justice movement impacted on the passage of Medicare and Medicaid legislation in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the ideological changes at work during the cost-control efforts of the 1980s. Nationalized healthcare, and its impossibility in the current political atmosphere, is also discussed as a feature of the social justice agenda. 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.