Doctors and Reformers
Subtitle: Discussion and Debate over Health Policy, 1925-1950
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781570034114
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of medicine; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; Health Care Policy; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Health/Fitness; USA; Medical policy; Health Care Delivery; Health Policy; Public Policy - Social Policy; General; 20th century; United States
Description: "Jonathan Engel traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the United States.

Examining the views advanced by doctors, including those unallied with the American Medical Association's position, as well as by "reformers" - academics, public health officers, philanthropists, foundation executives, and independent scholars - Engel displays how the discussion involved much more than the legislative efforts of New Deal Democrats regarding health insurance.".

"Engel draws a vivid picture of the differences between Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's degree of commitment to advancements in the policy area. Participants in the debates discovered no simple solution to the challenges they explored, however, and their positions above all foreshadow the debate of succeeding decades."--BOOK JACKET.