Format:
XIV, 313 S. :
,
Ill., Kt. ;
,
25 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-300-12091-2
,
0-300-12091-5
Series Statement:
Yale series in economic and financial history
Content:
"How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? Why did Progressive initiatives to establish a government system fail? This book explores the history of health insurance in the United States from its roots in the nineteenth-century sickness funds offered by industrial employers, fraternal organizations, and labor unions to the rise of such group plans as Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the mid-twentieth century."--Book jacket.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-304) and index. - Industrial sickness funds -- Political economy of progressive-era sickness insurance -- Progressive ideals : private and public insurance in Europe -- The rise of sickness funds -- How establishment funds worked -- How labor union funds worked -- Workers' decisions to save or buy insurance -- Workers' decisions to work or stay home sick -- Insured workers' health in the Great Depression -- Actuarial science and the decline of sickness funds -- Succession in the forest of health care reform
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Krankenversicherung
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016163460&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007015555.html
