The medical care programs of the Farm Security Administration, 1932 through 1947
A rehearsal for national health insurance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11030762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Grey (0000-0003-1739-0060, University of Connecticut, corresponding author), M R Grey |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1678-1687 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.84.10.1678 |
| PMID | 7943497 |
| OpenAlex | W2157021058 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
At a time of renewed interest in universal health insurance, an examination of earlier periods when society grappled with the link between socioeconomic status and health is fruitful. Between 1935 and 1947, the federal government sponsored a comprehensive medical care program for low-income farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant workers under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Despite the strong opposition of the American Medical Association, humanitarian and economic concerns at the local level often promoted physicians' participation in the program's group prepayment plans. Many FSA leaders clearly saw the program as a model upon which national health insurance might advance. However, in the wake of World War II, the FSA program declined as physicians' income improved, the rural population declined, and traditional ideological objections to federal intervention in medical care resurfaced. The FSA experience illuminates the complex ideological, economic, and humanitarian motivations of American physicians in the face of health care reform
Administration (probate law) · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Population · Prepayment of loan · Socioeconomic status · Finance · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |