Poverty and the myths of health care reform / Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Riding the A-train : income inequality and health care consumption along New York's subway lines -- Milwaukee : a microcosm of America's social and health care crisis -- Los Angeles : high health spending amidst wealth, poverty and complexity -- Boston vs. New Haven : the big stir -- Health care costs of poverty : hands across the border -- A nation of nations : cultural foundations of health care -- Global perspectives : American exceptionalism in health care and social services -- States : communal resources and federal cross-subsidies -- The 30% solution : what you see depends on where you are standing -- Searching for solutions : #1 eliminate poverty! -- Searching for solutions : #2 looking within the health care system.