World War 2 Employer-Based Health Insurance Case Summary

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1.What factors explain why the demand for the services of a professional physician was inadequate in the preindustrial era? How did scientific medicine and technology change that?
During the preindustrial era medical practice was disorderly where there was no such a thing as profession, it was all just a trade. The medical procedures were very primitive, missing institutional core where no institutions were completely devoted to patient care and people mostly relied on their selves due to unstable demand. There was no medical education, even the college graduates had no scientific training. However, overtime scientific medicine and technology has influenced medical education, allowing medical services to be delivered in other settings rather …show more content…

Instead of relying on the outside business and companies or hospitals the medical professionals decided to grain corporate control of their practice based on the corporate practice doctrine. Allowing licensure alleviated the intense competition in medical practice.
3.Which conditions during the World War II period lent support to employer -based health insurance in the US?
WWII caused wage freezes all over America, thus instead of employers raising the wages of the employees, they decided to provide health insurance for them. Later, supreme court passed bills supporting this idea through making insurance payments of the employer a nontaxable income.

4.On what basis were the elderly and the poor regarded as vulnerable groups for whom special government -sponsored programs needed to be created?
Although, private insurance was available to everyone who was able to afford it, there were some people such as the elderly and the poor who could not afford it. Thus, they are more likely to have a high mortality rate. Also, private payers charged way more. To ensure delivery to the elderly and poor Medicare and Medicaid were created.

5.Discuss the main ways in which current delivery of health care has become

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