Preindustrial America
Postindustrial America
Health Care Providers and Professionals
Health Insurance History
Medicare of Medicaid
100

Practice in inexpensive medical schools however lacked in science and laboratories for clinical observation. 

What is Medical Training

100

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)

100

Evaluate patient's health condition, diagnose, and prescribe treatments, require licensing. 

What are Physicians 

100

First broad coverage health insurance in US emerged from this

What is Worker's compensation? 

100

Covers only the very poor

What is Medicaid?
200

Existed in all cities and run by local government where disruptive elements of society were confined as inmates. 

What is almshouse

200

Discovered antibacterial properties of penicilling

Who is Alexander Fleming

200

Require Associates degree and state licensing, main caregivers for sick and injured patients that address physical, mental, and emotional needs.

What are Nurses

200

Emerged from Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas that was a nonprofit and had no shareholders to receive profit distributions. 

What is Blue Cross?

200

FInanced by states with matching funds from the federal government according to each state's per capita income

What is Medicaid?

300
Accommodate mental patients built by governments for untreatable patients with chronic mental illness

What is an asylum

300

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

300

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 

300

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

300

Does not require income/means test

What is Medicare

400

Used to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease such as cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever

What is a pesthouse

400
Influenced reformation in medicinal education, published under Carnegie Foundation for advancement in teaching.
What is the Flexner Report
400

Cre model, providers manage and coordinate care and are accountable for disease prevention and wellness.

What are patient-centered

400

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

400

All services are covered under one program

What is Medicaid

500

Free basic medical care to those who could not afford to pay.

What is dispensaries

500

Significant in reformation of mental health care, case provided community based services to people with mental illness 

What is Olmstead v. L.C

500

Includes technicians and assistants as well as technologists and therapists

What are Allied Health Professionals

500

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? 

500

Financed through payroll tax paid my employees, employers and self employed, subsidized through general taxes

What is Medicare