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Origins of American health insurance : a history of industrial sickness funds

Author: John E Murray
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Series: Yale series in economic and financial history.
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"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  Read more...
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Murray, John E., 1959-
Origins of American health insurance.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)655234498
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John E Murray
ISBN: 9780300120912 0300120915
OCLC Number: 123485148
Description: xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Yale series in economic and financial history.
Responsibility: John E. Murray.
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How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? This book explores the history of health insurance in the US from its roots in the 19th-century  Read more...

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