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A PLAN OF MEDICAL SERVICE FOR THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER AND HIS FAMILY

A PLAN OF MEDICAL SERVICE FOR THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER AND HIS FAMILY Abstract Many plans have been proposed to lessen the disproportion that exists between wages and the cost of medical care. As society is now organized, it is difficult to change the income of any industrial group. Adequate medical care requires the combined services of physician, surgeon, specialist, laboratory, nurse and hospital. The only practical economic method of furnishing medical care is organized medical service. The average annual wage of 30,000,000 industrial workers in the United States in 1925 was $1,250.1 Only 1.5 per cent of all incomes in the United States exceed $5,000.2 This leaves a great body of wage earners who can live in comfort, provided no unusual demand is made on their incomes, but whose family budget is dislocated or destroyed by a prolonged illness. When sickness comes to a wage earner's family, he must burden himself with a serious debt or he must default in the References 1. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: Bull. no. 457, Govt. Printing Office, May, 1926, pp. 428,429. 2. Leven, Maurice: Income in the Various States, Its Sources and Distribution , National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1925, p. 290. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

A PLAN OF MEDICAL SERVICE FOR THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER AND HIS FAMILY

O' NEIL, DANIEL C.
JAMA , Volume 91 (20) – Nov 17, 1928
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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1928 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
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0098-7484
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10.1001/jama.1928.02700200014005
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Abstract

Abstract Many plans have been proposed to lessen the disproportion that exists between wages and the cost of medical care. As society is now organized, it is difficult to change the income of any industrial group. Adequate medical care requires the combined services of physician, surgeon, specialist, laboratory, nurse and hospital. The only practical economic method of furnishing medical care is organized medical service. The average annual wage of 30,000,000 industrial workers in the United States in 1925 was $1,250.1 Only 1.5 per cent of all incomes in the United States exceed $5,000.2 This leaves a great body of wage earners who can live in comfort, provided no unusual demand is made on their incomes, but whose family budget is dislocated or destroyed by a prolonged illness. When sickness comes to a wage earner's family, he must burden himself with a serious debt or he must default in the References 1. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: Bull. no. 457, Govt. Printing Office, May, 1926, pp. 428,429. 2. Leven, Maurice: Income in the Various States, Its Sources and Distribution , National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1925, p. 290.

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Published: Nov 17, 1928

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