Question

What do you consider the most influential milestones in the history of US healthcare? What events helped shape the relationship between the patient, provider, and insurance carrier? Compare the relationship 50 years ago to today, what has changed? What do you think may change the patient, provider, and insurance carrier relationship 10 years from now?

Answer 1

The 1900’s

With the turn of the century came a push for organized medicine, led in part by the American Medical Association (AMA), which was growing stronger and gained 62,000 physicians during the coming decade. But because the working class wasn’t supportive of the idea of compulsory healthcare, the U.S. didn’t see the kind of groundswell that leading European nations would see soon after.