Struggles for National Health Reform in the United States.

Autor: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Brown, Theodore M., Fee, Elizabeth, Lear, Walter J.
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Zdroj: American Journal of Public Health; Jan2003, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p86-91, 6p, 7 Black and White Photographs
Abstrakt: The article presents information on the challenges faced by national health care reform in the U.S. The purpose of the American Association for Labor Legislation is disclosed. It discusses the reason popular support for compulsory health insurance did not resurface in the country until the 1930s, in the midst of the Great Depression. Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, called for universal health insurance. In the 1970s, conservative shift in national and congressional politics, inflation, and economic anxieties caused the support for national health reform to wither.
Databáze: Complementary Index
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