Volume 11 , Issue 33

That's The Way It Was - Healthcare in 1969

The Peoples Chronology, edited by James Trager, mentions on page 1134, right column, during the Nixon presidency of 1969 the cost of medical care in the United States escalated and a crisis in health care delivery loomed in large part because patients could in many cases receive insurance benefits ONLY if hospitalized, because they often were hospitalized unnecessarily by sympathetic physicians, because Blue Cross paid hospitals on a cost-plus basis without scrutinizing costs too carefully, because physicians ordered countless tests to protect themselves from malpractice suits, because hospital administrators installed costly equipment and facilities that were under-utilized, and because hospital workers received higher wages.
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