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Medicine & Health - U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections Free online archive of biomedical books and videos. (National Library of Medicine)

History of Healthcare - XcelHR

The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 with a mission to improve medical education. It wasn't until the late 1800s and early ...

100 Years to Healthcare - The Obama Years: An Oral History

To Barack Obama, passing healthcare was nothing less than a test of the nation's character—and of his presidency ... Nearly 50 million Americans ...

Scholarly Articles on Universal Health Care: History & More - Gale

Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the similarly named American Health Security Act in 1993, which would have created universal health care through ...

The History of Racism in Health Care |

This history of medicine and health care in the United States is rooted in racism and marked by the mistreatment of Black Americans.

HHS Historical Highlights

... history and a list of the Secretaries of HHS/HEW. 2010. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law, putting in place comprehensive U.S. health insurance ...

A dozen facts about the economics of the US health-care system

As of 2018, 34 percent of Americans received their health care via government insurance or direct public provision (Berchick, Barnett, and Upton ...

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Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2024 | AHA

If you are interested in a report with historical data for trend analysis, you can order AHA Hospital Statistics at the AHA online store or call (800) AHA-2626.

Our History | HCA Healthcare

In 1968, they formed Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). At that time, HCA Healthcare was one of the first hospital companies in the United States.

Health Care that Works for Americans - Obama White House

Nearly 50 million older Americans and Americans with disabilities rely on Medicare each year, and the health care law makes Medicare stronger by adding benefits ...

Understanding and Ameliorating Medical Mistrust Among Black ...

The medical field has a long history of mistreating Black Americans. Now, some health care systems and providers are working to earn their trust.

History of the U.S. Healthcare System - Jones & Bartlett Learning

Identify five milestones of medicine and medical education and their importance to health care. • Identify five milestones of the hospital ...

Health Care in America - CDC

Some possible reasons behind disparities between black and white persons in the utilization of health care services include historical patterns of the provision ...

History of healthcare policy in the United States, 1965-2015

President Richard Nixon signed the Health Maintenance Organizations Act on December 29, 1973. The law promoted a particular type of health insurance—prepaid ...

The U.S. Health Care System: An International Perspective

The U.S. does not have a uniform health system, has no universal health care coverage, and only recently enacted legislation mandating ...

Historical Overview of US Health Care - YouTube

Historical Overview of US Health Care - Intro to US Health Care Chapter 3.

Timeline: History of changes (and battles) in American healthcare

Here's a short – but by no means exhaustive – timeline of America's healthcare system based largely on the work of Michael Morrisey, a health insurance scholar ...

5 major milestones in U.S. health care history

From developing the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to in-vitro fertilization, to creating the first artificial heart, the United States ...

History of Healthcare in the U.S. – FLUX MAGAZINE

Boston doctors united to form the New World's first medical society in 1735, sharing information about disease and treatment strategies and ...