Shapers
of American Health Care Policy
Contents
Cover
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Time Stream: Flexner to Medicare 1899
to 1934 1935 to 1948
and 1949 to 1962
PART I: Cornerstones
1 - Introduction
2 - The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Part-1
and Part - 2
3 - The
Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act
4 - Roots of Medicare
5 - Evolution of Medicare
Legislation
Profiles
of Participants
PART
II: Blue Cross: An Evolving Social Movement
6 - In the Beginning
of Blue Cross
7 - Building the
Movement
8 - The National
Focus
PART III: The Emergence of a Profession
9 - The American
Hospital Association
10 - Educating for
a Profession
PART IV: A Look Backward
11 - Truman
and Health Care
Appendix
- Appendix A: The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Appendix B: Recommendations of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Appendix C: Principal Minority Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care Appendix D: Introductory Statement of the Commission on Hospital Care Appendix E: Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Hospital Care Appendix F: Excerpts from the Testimony of George Bugbee before the Senate Committee on Labor and Welfare Appendix G: Foreword to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care Appendix H: Preface to the Report of the Commission on Financing of Hospital Care Appendix I: Excerpts from C. Rufus Rorem.s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association.s Appendix J: Eerpts from C. Rufus Rorem.s Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Association.s Appendix K: Excerpts from the Testimony of C. Rufus Rorem before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor