PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1990s

PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline:
1990s

"Health care costs rise at double the rate of inflation.

Expansion of managed care helps to moderate increases in health care costs.

Federal health care reform legislation fails again to pass in the U.S. Congress.

By the end of the decade there are 44 million Americans, 16 % of the nation, with no health insurance at all.

Human Genome Project to identify all of the more than 100,000 genes in human DNA gets underway.
By June 1990, 139,765 people in the United States have HIV/AIDS, with a 60 percent mortality rate. ."