CAS SO 215 Chapter 8: CAS SO 215 Chapter : Rothman reading
21 Mar 2019
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South africa and us are only two countries without national health care. Co-opting the middle class: tactics to help remove middle class support for national health system, blue cross developed, advertised that middle class was the one struggling most. Physician as entrepreneur: they wanted the fee-for-service program of ama as well, by 1920"s they didn"t want gov interference, to account for physicians" entrepreneurial perspective, it is vital to remember that their social. In more precise terms, the mindset of physicians was that of the independent proprietor. world overlapped with that of the local business elite: the pattern of recruitment to the profession also encouraged this orientation. Medical school classes in the 1920s and 1930s were the almost exclusive preserve of white, upper-middle-class males. In brief, the entrepreneurial style of american physicians helps explain much of their own and some of their neighbors" disinclination to support national health insurance.
