Chapter 3
The Evolution of Health Services
in the United States
Learning Objectives
To discover historical developments that have shaped the nature of
the US health care delivery system
To evaluate why the system has been resistant to national health
insurance reforms
To explore developments associated with the corporatization of
health care
To speculate on whether the era of socialized medicine has dawned
in the United States
“Where’s the market?”
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