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
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 Public Welfare, March 19, 1954
- 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 Rorems Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Associations 1933 Annual Convention
- Appendix J: Eerpts from C. Rufus Rorems Report on Group Hospitalization to the American Hospital Associations 1934 Annual Convention
- Appendix K: Excerpts from the Testimony of C. Rufus Rorem before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, 1946