Tuesday, March 30, 2010

PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1950s

PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "At the start of the decade, national health care expenditures are 4.5 percent of the Gross National Product.

1950s

Attention turns to Korea and away from health reform; America will have a system of private insurance for those who can afford it and welfare services for the poor.

Federal responsibility for the sick poor is firmly established.

Many legislative proposals are made for different approaches to hospital insurance, but none succeed.
Many more medications are available now to treat a range of diseases, including infections, glaucoma, and arthritis, and new vaccines become available that prevent dreaded childhood diseases, including polio. The first successful organ transplant is performed.."

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