The U.S. Health Care Non-System, 1908-2008 (Virtual Mentor, May 2008 )
SUMMARY: The changes in the health care technology in the last 100 years have helped Americans pay less for their health benefits. With advances like the AMA and research the cost of health care dropped. Going through the decades and the changes that correlate with that time period.
TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?
CATEGORY: Academic Research
PUBLICATION INFORMATION:
AUTHOR: George B. Moseley III, JD, MBA
LOCATION: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/05/mhst1-0805.html
ACCESSED: February 11, 2008
SUPPORT: Membership in the American Medical Association (AMA); Council on Medical Education; Flexner Report on medical education; American College of Surgeons; Baylor University Hospital; Blue Cross; National Labor Relations Board
AUDIENCE & AGENDA: The AMA’s ethics journal publicly driven, the journal is a challenge to the medical society. Exploring the inside ethic issues of the medical training and society, Virtual Mentor is a ‘teaching resource’ for both doctors-to-be and those who are already certified.
USEFULNESS: This report traces the development of the health care systems in the U.S. With new technology being introduced through the decades the use of health care has changed with the times. The price has also changed along with the technology. The use of deductibles and returns is shown from decade to decade. Going through the years of health care, from the unregulated free-market state in 1908 to the complex, health care that is now available.
WORK CITED: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/05/mhst1-0805.html, http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/site/about.html, http://www.ama-assn.org/
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