How Did the Idea of Health Insurance Come About

question 25

Multiple Choice

How did the idea of health insurance come about?

• A) The U.S. followed the European model
• B) During WWII, companies could not afford to increase wages so they used health care coverage as a perk for employees
• C) Doctors pooled together after the Great Depression to set prices and contract with insurance companies so that they could better protect their practices and focus on caring for patients.
• D) Once the government started paying for the health care of the elderly and for low-income families in the 1960s, those companies that coordinated the care for the government began to offer coverage for private employers as well.

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