PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "Consistent with the general mood of political complacency, there is no strong effort to change health insurance.
1920s
Reformers now emphasize the cost of medical care instead of wages lost to sickness - the relatively higher cost of medical care is a new and dramatic development, especially for the middle class.
Growing cultural influence of the medical profession - physicians' incomes are higher and prestige is established.
Rural health facilities are clearly inadequate.
General Motors signs a contract with Metropolitan Life to insure 180,000 workers.
Penicillin is discovered, but it will be twenty years before it is used to combat infection and disease."
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