cliveandrews Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 I'm looking at a textbook used for training medical billing specialists at a vocational school. It says "In the early 1900s, most americans continued to pay for theier own health care expenses, which usually meant either charity care or no care." Is this true or is it just another example of leftist propoganda in education? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_Ellison Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 It must be true, where else would medical care come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0918 Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 It must be true, where else would medical care come from? Force! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 I'm looking at a textbook used for training medical billing specialists at a vocational school. It says "In the early 1900s, most americans continued to pay for theier own health care expenses, which usually meant either charity care or no care." Is this true or is it just another example of leftist propoganda in education? Regarding the "charity or no care" comment, I think its important to know how little care there actually was. 30 years earlier and they are using one saw to cut off legs from lines of civil war soldiers without so much as a wipe down in between and a swig of whiskey, not as a disinfectant, but as an anesthetic! Most deaths and illnesses were from poor water supplies and infection related illness(typhoid and what not). Doctors made house calls for cheap cause there wasn't much they could do; We had no more then a handful of vaccines available; No expensive MRI's or PET scans to run. No triple bi pass surgery. If your heart was bad you either died or lived through it. Sickness and death were just the given. Health care wasn't especially expensive because there wasn't much of it. We just hadn't advanced that far. Something important to keep in mind with regard to this is capitalism didn't cause gut wrenching poverty-it inherited it. Not unlike child labor and 16 hour work days. That's just what life was from before the 1900's to all the way back. I call liberal propaganda and revisionist history on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils_Advocate Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 It is very, very, very important that you read this; it provides an excellent understanding of how health care operated around that time. http://libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 It is very, very, very important that you read this; it provides an excellent understanding of how health care operated around that time. http://libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html Wow. Didn't know all that. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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