HSA 3111 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Managed Care, Preventive Healthcare, Health Promotion
3 Feb 2018
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Major themes of the readings from health care usa. There were also many failed efforts to enact compulsory health insurance. Only when limited to the aged and medically indigent was government able to pass medicaid and medicare in 1965. Voluntary hospitalization insurance became the predominant health insurance in the us: over the years, the us government developed categorical or disease-specific programs that today account for about 40 percent of us personal health care expenditures. 1935 social security act was the most significant social initiative, establishing the legislative basis for a number of significant health and welfare programs including. Medicaid and medicare: the creative federalism programs of the johnson era put the federal government deeply in the business of financing health care. The programs expanded health care and improved access, but also fueled the inflationary spiral of health care costs: in 1973, the health maintenance organization act encouraged development of hmos through grants for demonstration projects.
