Shapers of American Health Care Policy
Contents
- Cover
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Time Stream: Flexner to Medicare from
- PART I: Cornerstones
- Introduction
- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Part-1 and Part – 2
- The Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act
- Roots of Medicare
- Evolution of Medicare Legislation
- PART II: Blue Cross: An Evolving Social Movement
- PART III: The Emergence of a Profession
- PART IV: A Look Backward
Appendix
- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
- Recommendations of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
- Principal Minority Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
- Introductory Statement of the Commission on Hospital Care
- Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Hospital Care
- Excerpts from the Testimony of George Bugbee before the Senate Committee on Labor and Welfare
- Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care
- Preface to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care
- Excerpts from C. Rufus Rorem’s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association’s
- Excerpts from C. Rufus Rorem’s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association’s
- Excerpts from the Testimony of C. Rufus Rorem before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor