Wednesday, April 10, 2013

History Of Public Empathy In Healthcare In Modern Time

Credits

Hill-Burton Act is probably first effort in providing care to the poor. Federal grant to nation's hospital system. Support by President Truman. The problem with this law is no regulation. Many people were denied care.

President Ronald W. Reagan (Patient Anti-Dumping Act and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act).

Barack Obama (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).

Others
President Theodore Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President John F. Kennedy
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Richard M. Nixon
President Gerald R. Ford
President Jimmy E. Carter
President George H.W. Bush
President William J. Clinton (SCHIP)
President George W. Bush (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003)


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