Hill April 3, 2019
The evolution of the American health-care system and interesting roots. Starting in the 19th century, to prevent wage loss due to illness, European nations developed national insurances similar to the current American Social Security.
These systems evolved into national universal coverage. The United States, on the other hand, has a financially unsustainable and fractured system that fails to embrace health care as a human right as compared to other developed nations. American exceptionalism, the for-profit health-care industry, and physicians’ concerns over personal income are the three key elements that hinder progress toward universal health care.
During the 1930s American physicians and hospitals established prepaid, multi-specialty groups that charged fees for services. Other groups such as labor unions adopted...
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