As the increasing of the patients, they still needed working capital to support their expenditure. The most sources of money were from found-raising and receiving the donation from tycoons or philanthropists. Fortunately, this model of operation for health institutions struck the balance between income and expense barely. However, the situation went worse and worse because of the increasing of tax from the government and raising of resource abuse from immoral patients. As a result, the health institutions were compelled not to provide shelter for the low-income people and underprivileged. In addition, they changed their mind on their operation and decided to charge their patients in order to restrain the immoral phenomenon. The notion of Health insurance also budded in this time. The accident insurance, another name with which we are more familiar is Disability insurance, was provided by the Franklin Health Assurance Company of Massachusetts. The purpose of the plan was to compensate the salary those who got hurt and couldn 't work in a rail or steamboat accident. However, patients still paid the healthcare fee when they went to the hospital. As mentioned previously, the …show more content…
During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of middle-class people lost their bread-and-butter. The tough circumstance brought a series of sequential problems, such as poor quality of life, public disorder, and especially unsatisfying demand of medical services. It is a stimulus for employer-sponsored organization to assist low-income family to cover their expenses at health institutions. It is a kind of health insurance. Simultaneously, government drafted out a plan to resolve social problems. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prepared to pass the Social Security Act (SSA). Originally, he considered the concept of all-inclusive healthcare system in this provision. Nevertheless, some dissidents like American Medical Association (AMA) strongly argued that it would destroy the free-disturbed medical market and led the nation to become socialism operation. Despite of enduring the pressure, he gave in this dispute, eliminated the law, and made sure that the act will be supported in Congress. This is the first time that United