| Description |
xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Yale series in economic and financial history
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Yale series in economic and financial history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Industrial sickness funds -- Political economy of progressive-era sickness insurance -- Progressive ideals : private and public insurance in Europe -- The rise of sickness funds -- How establishment funds worked -- How labor union funds worked -- Workers' decisions to save or buy insurance -- Workers' decisions to work or stay home sick -- Insured workers' health in the Great Depression -- Actuarial science and the decline of sickness funds -- Succession in the forest of social welfare reform. |
| Summary |
"How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? Why did Progressive initiatives to establish a government system fail? This book explores the history of health insurance in the United States from its roots in the nineteenth-century sickness funds offered by industrial employers, fraternal organizations, and labor unions to the rise of such group plans as Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the mid-twentieth century."--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Health insurance -- United States -- History.
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Health insurance. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Sick leave -- United States -- History.
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Sick leave. |
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Absenteeism (Labor) -- United States.
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Absenteeism (Labor) |
| ISBN |
9780300120912 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300120915 cloth alkaline paper |
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