PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "Penicillin comes into use.
1940s
Prepaid group healthcare begins, seen as radical.
During the 2nd World War, wage and price controls are placed on American employers. To compete for workers, companies begin to offer health benefits, giving rise to the employer-based system in place today.
President Roosevelt asks Congress for 'economic bill of rights,' including right to adequate medical care.
President Truman offers national health program plan, proposing a single system that would include all of American society.
Truman's plan is denounced by the American Medical Association (AMA) , and is called a Communist plot by a House subcommittee."
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PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1930s
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "The Depression changes priorities, with greater emphasis on unemployment insurance and 'old age' benefits.
1930s
Social Security Act is passed, omitting health insurance.
Push for health insurance within the Roosevelt Administration, but politics begins to be influenced by internal government conflicts over priorities.
Against the advice of insurance professionals, Blue Cross begins offering private coverage for hospital care in dozens of states."
1930s
Social Security Act is passed, omitting health insurance.
Push for health insurance within the Roosevelt Administration, but politics begins to be influenced by internal government conflicts over priorities.
Against the advice of insurance professionals, Blue Cross begins offering private coverage for hospital care in dozens of states."
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1920s
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."
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."
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1910s
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "American hospitals are now modern scientific institutions, valuing antispetics and cleanliness, and using medications for the relief of pain.
1910s
American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) organizes first national conference on 'social insurance'.
Progressive reformers argue for health insurance, seems to be gaining support.
Opposition from physicians and other interest groups, and the entry of the US into the war in 1917 undermine reform effort."
1910s
American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) organizes first national conference on 'social insurance'.
Progressive reformers argue for health insurance, seems to be gaining support.
Opposition from physicians and other interest groups, and the entry of the US into the war in 1917 undermine reform effort."
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline 1900s
PBS- Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Timeline: "1900s1910s1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s
1900s
American Medical Association (AMA) becomes a powerful national force.
In 1901, AMA reorganizes as the national organization of state and local associations. Membership increases from about 8,000 physicians in 1900 to 70,000 in 1910 -- half the physicians in the country. This period is the beginning of 'organized medicine.'
Surgery is now common, especially for removing tumors, infected tonsils, appendectomies, and gynecological operations.
Doctors are no longer expected to provide free services to all hospital patients.
America lags behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness.
Railroads are the leading industry to develop extensive employee medical
programs."
1900s
American Medical Association (AMA) becomes a powerful national force.
In 1901, AMA reorganizes as the national organization of state and local associations. Membership increases from about 8,000 physicians in 1900 to 70,000 in 1910 -- half the physicians in the country. This period is the beginning of 'organized medicine.'
Surgery is now common, especially for removing tumors, infected tonsils, appendectomies, and gynecological operations.
Doctors are no longer expected to provide free services to all hospital patients.
America lags behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness.
Railroads are the leading industry to develop extensive employee medical
programs."
Health Care | The White House
Health Care The White House: "Health reform will make health care more affordable, make health insurers more accountable, expand health coverage to all Americans, and make the health system sustainable, stabilizing family budgets, the Federal budget, and the economy:
It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps 32 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more. Under the plan, 95% of Americans will be insured.
It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving millions of Americans the same choices of insurance that members of Congress will have.
It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next ten years – and more than $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse."
It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps 32 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more. Under the plan, 95% of Americans will be insured.
It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving millions of Americans the same choices of insurance that members of Congress will have.
It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next ten years – and more than $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse."
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