Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 313 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300120915
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0300150164
,
9780300120912
,
9780300150162
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."--Jacket
Content:
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 social welfare reform
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Murray, John E., 1959- Origins of American health insurance New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007
Language:
English
