Early 19c. no interest in health insurance--physicians opposed it

1912--American Association for Labor legislation created the Committtee on Social Inusrance to prepare a model bill--provided for health insurance for all people earning over $100 --AMA initially came very close to supporting it--New York said no, started a movement against it--and some unions prefered higher wages to health insurance

By 1920 obviously a lost cause

After WWI physicians were unhappy with the socialized medicine as a result of workmans’ comp

Encouraged the Dallas teacher’s plan to keep doctors financed durring the depression--a lot of altruism--AMA condemed it

Majority public report comes out slightly in favor of insurance--minority report against it--declares it communist--AMA sides with the minority report

AMA okays hospital service based insurance (1938)

AMA okays a set of ten patient principles to keep physicians well paid

AMA wanted to encourage endeminity reimbursement plans to prevent socialized medicine--they wanted total control

1948 Supreme Court ruling made collective bargining for health care benefits legal--tremendous growth in the 1950s

By 1952 insurance paid for only 15% of costs--those who needed it the most went unemployed

Truman proposes a bill which terrifies the AMA Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill--they support a new one which consists purely of grants to the states for the poor--after 1948 Truman election the AMA declares all out war and lobbies the government and public and wins

AMA claimed that there was no health care crisis (again)

AMA violently resisted all attempts towards socialized medicine (1960s Kennedy)--introduced the Kerr-Mills amendment to the Social Security Act to allow federal money to the "medically indignet" to attempt to forestay the move to socialized medicine lost it with Meidcare in social security

Hospitals did well as did physicians

Physicians did very well of Medicare--concerns over abuse