RT Journal
T1 THe failure of german compulsory health insurance
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD February 1
VO 72
IS 5
SP 347
OP 348
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610050029013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610050029013
AB Prior to the entering of the United States into the world war, social insurance was under general discussion in medical, public health, social reform and philanthropic circles. Eight states appointed commissions to investigate the subject and submit reports and recommendations. With the return of peace it is highly probable that this discussion will be resumed. While the American Medical Association has taken no definite stand on the fundamental questions involved, it has, by the adoption of the resolutions1 presented to the House of Delegates in New York in 1917, indicated a minimum basis on which the medical profession will cooperate in case the plan is adopted by any state. To the majority of physicians the question is an open one on which they are keenly desirous of securing all the information possible. Much has been written in favor of social insurance from an economic and public health standpoint; many