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.
http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/history.htm
Health care at this point in 1920 was clear that it was working but "cost of medical care instead of wages lost to sickness”. This began to mean that a demand was being meet but the supply of the health care was not enough. With the Government realizing this health care problem cost was seriously look upon.
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