The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.

The health care safety net in the context of national health insurance reform / Mark A. Hall and Sara Rosenbaum -- Dr. StrangeRove ; or, how conservatives learned to stop worrying and love community health centers / Robert W. Mickey -- Reinventing a classic : community health centers and the newly insured / Sara Rosenbaum -- Applying lessons from social psychology to repair the health care safety net for undocumented immigrants / Dayna Bowen Matthew -- CHAMP : community health center and academic medical partnerships to expand and improve primary care / Thomas R. Oliver ... [et al.] -- Examining the structure and sustainability of health care safety-net services / Peter D. Jacobson ... [et al.] -- The safety-net hospitals at the crossroads : whither Medicaid DSH? / Michael K. Gusmano and Frank J. Thompson -- The safety-net role of public hospitals and academic medical centers : past, present, and future / Gloria J. Bazzoli and Sheryl L. Garland -- The declining public hospital sector / Jack Needleman and Michelle Ko -- Achieving universal access through safety-net coverage / Mark A. Hall -- Public health insurance expansions and private health insurance crowd-out : implications for safety nets / Alison Snow Jones.