Origins of American health insurance
Subtitle: a history of industrial sickness funds
By: John E. Murray.
Series: Yale series in economic history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300120912
Subjects: Insurance, Health -- United States -- History; Sick leave -- United States -- History; Absenteeism (Labor) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Industrial sickness funds; title: Political economy of progressive-era sickness insurance; title: Progressive ideals : private and public insurance in Europe; title: The rise of sickness funds; title: How establishment funds worked; title: How labor union funds worked; title: Workers' decisions to save or buy insurance; title: Workers' decisions to work or stay home sick; title: Insured workers' health in the Great Depression; title: Actuarial science and the decline of sickness funds; title: Succession in the forest of social welfare reform.