The American Health Care System at a crossroads: The American health care debate since FDR

Abstract

This analysis focuses on the American health care debate since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s up to the present. In connection with the development of government policy from the beginning of the welfare state under FDR, this thesis also includes an overview of the (public) debate in relation to welfare and health reforms in the past eighty years, since health care policy usually reflects public opinion.