Heartwarming! America Doesn't Care If You Live or Die!
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The Bismarck Vision of Healthcare
In the early American colonial period, a lot of people just died because they didn't wash their hands back then. So healthcare in the US was a mess of voluntary religious and charitable initiatives like relief for the poor or elderly. The exception was for those who had money and could pay for medicine and care. And it remained this way until the 20th century. In his article, light focuses in on a key time period in history where the U.S. healthcare system was born. He identifies all the major factors that built the foundation for this fuckery.
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