Origins of American health insurance : a history of industrial sickness funds /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, John E., 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Yale series in economic and financial history.
Temas:
Krankenversicherung
Health insurance > United States > History.
Sick leave > United States > History.
Absenteeism (Labor) > United States.
Absenteeism (Labor)
Insurance, Health > history
Absenteeism
Sick Leave > history
Assurance-maladie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Absentéisme (Travail) > États-Unis.
Absentéisme (Travail)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
Health insurance
Sick leave
Lohnfortzahlung
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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