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Health Care Timeline

Complete the following timeline.

Select seven events that have helped shape health care as it is today. Write a 50- to 150- word summary per event that discusses the event and its effect on the health care industry. An example has been provided for you.

Health Care Through Out the Years Date Event and Significance 1870-1889 Employers began to provide employee health care. Companies in several industries, including mining, lumber, and railroads, developed group industrial clinics with plans that prepaid doctors a fixed monthly fee to provide medical care to employees for industrial accidents and common illnesses. Early 1900s Organized medicine begins. Physicians band together to create the American Medical Association...