Shapers of American Health Care Policy

Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Time Stream: Flexner to Medicare from
    1. 1899 to 1934
    2. 1935 to 1948
    3. 1949 to 1962 
  6. PART I: Cornerstones
    1. Introduction
    2. The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Part-1 and Part – 2
    3. The Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act 
    4. Roots of Medicare 
    5. Evolution of Medicare Legislation
  7. PART II: Blue Cross: An Evolving Social Movement
    1. In the Beginning of Blue Cross 
    2. Building the Movement 
    3. The National Focus 
  8. PART III: The Emergence of a Profession
    1. The American Hospital Association
    2. Educating for a Profession
  9. PART IV: A Look Backward
    1. Truman and Health Care

Appendix

  1. The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
  2. Recommendations of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
  3. Principal Minority Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
  4. Introductory Statement of the Commission on Hospital Care
  5. Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Hospital Care
  6. Excerpts from the Testimony of George Bugbee before the Senate Committee on Labor and Welfare
  7. Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care
  8. Preface to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care
  9. Excerpts from C. Rufus Rorem’s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association’s
  10. Excerpts from C. Rufus Rorem’s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association’s
  11. Excerpts from the Testimony of C. Rufus Rorem before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor

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