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History of health care reform in the U.S.

Video from 2013

The American Health Care System Has Lots of Problems. Here's When They Started
"In order to understand why 1938 is the key year, it helps to understand how people paid for and thought about health care before that point. Though people had been seeking help from healers since time immemorial, a great deal had changed around the turn of the 20th century."
A short American history: From Medicare to Obamacare to ... Berniecare?
"Here's a brief look back at the history of health care legislation, starting with the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, which were themselves the subject of long national debates."
How did America end up with this health care system?
Timeline put together by PBS

The History and Politics of Health Care in America: From the Progressive Era to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Max J. Skidmore (University of Missouri-Kansas City) surveys the history and politics of the development of health care delivery in the United States, and reviews Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. This study, by two prominent scholars of health care in America, is a detailed analysis of the process that led to adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and of the details of the Act.
A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US
Transcribed from a talk given by Karen S. Palmer MPH, MS in San Francisco at the Spring, 1999 PNHP meeting.