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Where did our employer based healthcare system actually come from?

If there's one debate you can't avoid today it's what do about the US health insurance. While many countries around the world have some form of nationalized, government run healthcare most people in the US have their healthcare provided by their employer. Why is that the case? Well the answer has to do with a strange history of the marketing of makeup, the wage and price controls instituted by FDR during World War II, and the threat of Communism during Truman’s Presidency and the 1950's. Watch the episode to learn more.

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Subversion of Authority by Clowns: Paul Hallinan Miller TEDx Talk
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Works Cited:

History of Employer Based Healthcare in the US and NHS in UK

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Melissa Thomasson University of Miami (expert, lots of articles published on the topic) [ Ссылка ].
Listed below are the ones I’m drawing on specifically
Thomasson, M. A. (2008). "From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1928-1940" (with Jaret Treber). Explorations in Economic History, 45 (1), 76-99.
Thomasson, M. A. (2002). "From Sickness to Health: The Twentieth Century Development of U.S. Health Insurance." Explorations in Economic History, 39 (3), 233-53.
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Standardization of US healthcare

Citations on midwives vs hospital births in the turn of the 20th century (E.g. the move from birthing at home with a midwife to moving into a hospital)
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Normalization of the expansion of healthcare
Articles on incubators that were used at Coney Island freak show before becoming standard in hospitals
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Truman Healthcare conclusion
Truman and Healthcare 1945:
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Flexner Report:

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