Thursday, December 2, 2010

Did Health Care do what it was made for 1920's?

Consistent with the general mood of political complacency, there is no strong effort to change health insurance.

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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