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- W120405263 abstract "cannot reasonably be doubted that the provision of a satisfactory health service for the people of the United States presents a real problem. This problem has been steadily growing during the last generation for two reasons, first, because of the increasing complication which has come from enormous increase in the application of science to the practice of medicine, and second really a result of the first the increase of the cost of satisfactory medical care. A good deal of discussion has taken place as to the whys and wherefores of the very obvious increase in cost, but the reasons are not far to seek. The last quarter of a century has seen an astonishing increase in the possible application of scientific method to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Today methods which were fairly satisfactory thirty or forty years ago are so make-shift as to be nearly worthless. Scientific method requires expensive apparatus, well-equipped laboratories, hospital accommodations, and an enormous increase in the number of thoroughly trained specialists. Although it is undoubtedly true that the physician of today could offer the brand of medical care which his grandfather supplied at a price as low as or lower than was then possible, such care would today be quite unacceptable. Very roughly and generally speaking the cost of illness per capita in the United States at about 1930 was $30 per person. This does not sound like a prohibitive sum, but it does not in fact represent the expense which many people bear. The cost of illness is very unevenly distributed, and in any one year something like 10 per cent of the people will pay 50 per cent of the bill. Such impossible situations as that of a family with an income of" @default.
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- W120405263 title "Medical Aid for All" @default.
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