Health Care History
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Health Care History
HCS/440
January 07, 2014
Pamela Cromity
Health Care History
Over the years healthcare and its economics have drastically changed. There are many contributing factors to why healthcare has become a dominant economic and political issue. Dramatic increase in the knowledge for diagnosing and treating illnesses has created sophisticated solutions that forty years ago were thought to be impossible or too complex to perform. These solutions have contributed to the rapid rise in healthcare spending and the changes in healthcare economics.
In 1848 the American Medical Association was created with goals to improve and support scientific advancement, create standards for medical education, establish medical ethics and improving public health. In the early 1900’s organized medicine is starting to take shape and topics of social and health insurance that gain attention, but was disrupted when the United States entered World War I. The nation’s first model for modern health insurance was influenced by the Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas which started a prepaid insurance program with a local teachers union. In 1931 economic worries came to the itinerary, and the AMA Bureau of Medical Economics was created to establish studies on all economic matters that affect the medical profession. The Depression struck the United States and attention was shifted towards unemployment and elderly benefits. President Franklin Roosevelt created the Committee on Economic Security to address these rising issues, but with the passing of the Social Security Act in 1935 the health insurance was excluded. At this same time the American Medical Association was highly against a national health insurance. They felt it would escalate bureaucracy, hinder the doctor – patient relationship and the doctors would lose freedom of practice.
During World War II businesses began offering health benefits to compete for workers, and since the ending of World War II in 1945,...
HCS/440
January 07, 2014
Pamela Cromity
Health Care History
Over the years healthcare and its economics have drastically changed. There are many contributing factors to why healthcare has become a dominant economic and political issue. Dramatic increase in the knowledge for diagnosing and treating illnesses has created sophisticated solutions that forty years ago were thought to be impossible or too complex to perform. These solutions have contributed to the rapid rise in healthcare spending and the changes in healthcare economics.
In 1848 the American Medical Association was created with goals to improve and support scientific advancement, create standards for medical education, establish medical ethics and improving public health. In the early 1900’s organized medicine is starting to take shape and topics of social and health insurance that gain attention, but was disrupted when the United States entered World War I. The nation’s first model for modern health insurance was influenced by the Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas which started a prepaid insurance program with a local teachers union. In 1931 economic worries came to the itinerary, and the AMA Bureau of Medical Economics was created to establish studies on all economic matters that affect the medical profession. The Depression struck the United States and attention was shifted towards unemployment and elderly benefits. President Franklin Roosevelt created the Committee on Economic Security to address these rising issues, but with the passing of the Social Security Act in 1935 the health insurance was excluded. At this same time the American Medical Association was highly against a national health insurance. They felt it would escalate bureaucracy, hinder the doctor – patient relationship and the doctors would lose freedom of practice.
During World War II businesses began offering health benefits to compete for workers, and since the ending of World War II in 1945,...