Preindustrial America
Practice in inexpensive medical schools however lacked in science and laboratories for clinical observation.
What is Medical Training
Played a critical role in galvanizing medical profession in protecting interest of physicians, referred to as organized medicine.
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)
Evaluate patient's health condition, diagnose, and prescribe treatments, require licensing.
What are Physicians
First broad coverage health insurance in US emerged from this
What is Worker's compensation?
Covers only the very poor
Existed in all cities and run by local government where disruptive elements of society were confined as inmates.
What is almshouse
Discovered antibacterial properties of penicilling
Who is Alexander Fleming
Require Associates degree and state licensing, main caregivers for sick and injured patients that address physical, mental, and emotional needs.
What are Nurses
Emerged from Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas that was a nonprofit and had no shareholders to receive profit distributions.
What is Blue Cross?
FInanced by states with matching funds from the federal government according to each state's per capita income
What is Medicaid?
What is an asylum
Credited with pioneering germ theory of disease and microbiology in 1860 for sterilization techniques like boiling and with holding exposure to air to kill microorganism and prevent contamination
Who is Louis Pasteur
Focuses on whole community rather than individual, works to address issues in health care, disease, environmental health issues, violence, other injury issues, and overall well being of community
What are Public Health Professionals
Between 1916 and 1918, 16 state legislatures attempted to enact legislation compelling employers to provide health insurance
What is the Rise of Private Health Insurance
Does not require income/means test
What is Medicare
Used to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease such as cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever
What is a pesthouse
Cre model, providers manage and coordinate care and are accountable for disease prevention and wellness.
What are patient-centered
Events such as US congress imposing wage freezes during World War II, Supreme Court ruling that benefits were legitimate part of union management, and IRC making empyer paid coverage nontaxable.
What is employment based health insurance
All services are covered under one program
What is Medicaid
Free basic medical care to those who could not afford to pay.
What is dispensaries
Significant in reformation of mental health care, case provided community based services to people with mental illness
What is Olmstead v. L.C
Includes technicians and assistants as well as technologists and therapists
What are Allied Health Professionals
AMA opposition of national health care initiatives, middle class Americans averse to higher taxes to pay for increased cost of national health care, distrust of big government decentralized system play a huge role.
What are reasons why National Health Insurance has failed in the US?
Financed through payroll tax paid my employees, employers and self employed, subsidized through general taxes
What is Medicare