The history of Americas health care providence has gotten much better now that Obama has passed the health care reform law which provides universal health care to all. Originally, at around 1900 to 1920, health insurance was nonexistent because health care technologies had not yet really advanced which meant that there was really not much that a "health expert" could do for a patient in order to cure their illness no matter how small. In fact, back then you would not even go to a doctors office, but instead the doctor would come to your home for any kind of procedures. The rise of medical care did not begin until the 1920's, when the treatment of illnesses shifted from being performed inside the home to hospitals. There was also an increase in the role that medicine played in peoples lives. These two main factors caused the cost of medical care to rise and also doctors began to have a higher expectation of merit. In 1929, a new payment innovation that was developed revolutionized the health care industry. This was when Blue Cross was started. Blue Cross Designed to Reduce Price Competition among Hospitals and it provided insurance for physitional services. From 1940 to 1960 there was roughly a rise of 120,000 people enrolled in health insurance. By the 1960's, Medicare and Medicaid began to form. The AMA realized that the only way to "enact government-sponsored health insurance would be to do so incrementally" and so they began by focusing on the elderly. "Focusing on the elderly allowed proponents to counter charges that nationalized health insurance would provide health care to individuals who were generally able to pay for it themselves." Since 1966, both Medicare and Medicaid have grown a rough 0.1% compared to the current day. In 1934, President Roosevelt "announced his intention to provide a program for Social Security." Its purpose was to assist the elderly, fight unemployment and poverty, and provide benefits for surviving family members during the Great Depression. Today, Obama finally achieved passing an "Affordable Care Act" in March 2010 which will stop insurance companies from limiting the care people need and remove insurance company barriers between people and their doctors.

The way that my topic for Life: The Book ties into all of this information is that any time that people find out they have some sort of a serious or even life-threatening disease, a lot of times they then turn to faith in order to give them some sort of comfort or assurance in order to carry on with their lives and not be afraid. In my article I will research and describe a supposed "god gene" which is apparently present in some people and not in others and what that "god gene" effects is if the person has a tendency to place trust and love into this God that they believe in.

Sources:

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/thomasson.insurance.health.us

http://www.ehow.com/about_4586912_what-purpose-social-security.html

http://www.withylaw.com/history.htm

http://www.ontheissues.org/barack_obama.htm

http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~bloevy/CivilRightsActOf1964/

http://www.healthreform.gov/newsroom/new_patients_bill_of_rights.html

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