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  2. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...

  3. History of medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1987) Rosenkrantz, Barbara G. Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842–1936 (1972). Rosner, David A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915 (1982).

  4. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of health care reform in the United States has spanned many decades with health care reform having been the subject of political debate since the early part of the 20th century. Recent reforms remain an active political issue. Alternative reform proposals were offered by both of the major candidates in the 2008, 2016, and 2020 ...

  5. The History of Medicare | Healthline.com

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    In 2024, Medicare is celebrating its 58th year of providing health insurance. The program was first signed into law in 1965 and began offering coverage in 1966. That first year, 19 million ...

  6. A Look Back At Old-Time Medicine - WebMD

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    They also invented a dizzying array of devices, such as electric insoles and magic shoes, to cure sore feet and crippling conditions. Consider, too, the Health Jolting Chair of the 1880s.

  7. Timeline of medicine and medical technology - Wikipedia

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    1908 – Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method. 1909 – First intrauterine device described by Richard Richter. [102] 1910 – Hans Christian Jacobaeus performs the first laparoscopy on humans. 1917 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovers the malarial fever shock therapy for general paresis of the insane.

  8. Pictures of Health: What Healthcare in America Looks Like

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    Saundra Bishop, 36, Washington, D.C. Owner of a behavioral therapy company, Saundra Bishop got a concussion in July 2017. She went to the emergency room and was told to rest for a few days ...

  9. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It was begun in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers ...