InsuranceThe history of health insurance in the United States has been told through three narratives. The first is that it is a history of political failure – the inability to establish universal health coverage. The second is a narrative of economic failure – government intervention has kept ...
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Insurance is such a presence in our everyday lives that it's hard to imagine living without it. But throughout much of the colonial period, that's just what Americans did. Insurance arrived on the American landscape at about the same time as the idea of a single nation—the United State...
On the history of medicine in the United States, theory, health insurance, and psychiatry: an interview with Charles Rosenberg An interview with Charles Rosenberg conducted by Rafael Mantovani in November 2013 that addressed four topics. It first focused on the way in which Rosenberg perceived trend...
This article looks at the results of a survey of insurance companies in the United Kingdom about their assessment for a proposed 35-year-old female life insurance applicant with an unremarkable history except for a mother who died from breast cancer at age 35. Most of the responding companies...
Share Development increased United HealthCare's health plan membership by 167,000 enrollees, and by the end of the year United HealthCare and its subsidiaries were active in 22 states, covering 822,400 members through company owned or managed health plans. ...
[26,27]. The large and powerful private sector – comprised mostly of for-profit providers and not-for-profit health insurance companies known as medical schemes – serves only about 16% of the population, but accounts for just less than half of all health spending nationally [6,27]. The ...
the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene andPublic Health(Fee, 1987), and more general histories of schools of public health in the United States (Fee, 2003). In the UK,Wilkinson and Hardy (2001)have written the history of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Fee and Acheson (199...
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