Healthcare timeline

Question 1

Pre-1850 (Colonial)

Answer 1

HC providers often had second jobs, circuit riders

Jenner: Smallbox

John Snow: epidemiology

Anesthetics

Surgery became possible

Question 2

1850-1900

Answer 2

First hospitals: people came here to die

Hospitals allowed doctors to collaborate

Pasteurization and sterilizations

Discovery of why people died

Surgery became survivable

Question 3

1900-1930

Answer 3

Medicine as a science

Start of insurance

Divergence of HC systems:
Europe: cure this disease (public health)
US: save the patient (private health)

Question 4

Post WW2-1970

Answer 4

Employer insurance

Medicare and medicaid

Question 5

1970-1980

Answer 5

Health planning period

short lived attempt by government to control quality

HMO formation

Question 6

1980-1990

Answer 6

Deregulation

hopes that free market would lower costs

For profit healthcare

Rise of managed care

Question 7

New Millenium

Answer 7

More government involvement

Medicare D to spread costs

Rationing