Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
By John E. Murray.
Description
How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? Why did Progressive initiatives to establish a government system fail? This book explores the history of health insurance in the United States from its roots in the nineteenth-century sickness funds offered by industrial employers, fraternal organizations, and labor unions to the rise of such group plans as Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the mid-twentieth century. Historians generally view the failure to establish universal health insurance during the first half of the twentieth century as an...
ISBN(s)
0300120915, 9780300120912
