The Way To The Federal Enactment Of American Medical Insurance (1912-1965)

This thesis aims to, from the perspectives of historic significance, explore the evolution of American medical insurance from private operation to federal enactment and the historical veins of American medical insurance, as well as the political and cultural characteristics of the United States. The thesis will be explored as follows:Chapter one gives a review of the domestic and international relevant academic researches toward American medical insurance, putting forward my own train of thought on the basis of existing research results. Meanwhile it distinguishes some similar concepts referred to this thesis in the hope of making the argumentation with fewer leaks. It describes the development of American private medical insurance briefly as well, which is the historical background of a-half-century-long federal legislative struggle of American medical insurance. Chapter two is the focal point of this thesis, namely the evolution that American medical insurance enacted federally, and it analyzes each stage that the federal enactment of American medical insurance according to the historical development sequence, from the very beginning to the pass of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. In chapter three, the author analyzes the unique mode of American medical insurance, the historical origin of the federal enactment and the appraisal to the realization of the federal enactment. It sums up the compromise to the political and cultural reality in the legislative struggle course of American medical insurance finally. Chapter four concludes the historical value and the experience obtained from the federal enactment of American medical insurance.