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Health Care Bill: When America's Insurance Problem Started | TIME

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W ith Senate Republicans planning to introduce a new version of a health care bill on Thursday, in their latest attempt to find a way to fulfill the promise to repeal former President Obama’s signature health care law, it’s as clear as ever that, in the words of President Donald Trump, health care is “so complicated.” But, while those complications are traced by some to President Obama’s impact on the system or a half-century back to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, an even earlier moment is really at the heart of the problem, says Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System. It was in 1938, she argues, that the structural problems with the U.S. health care system began. In order to understand why 1938 is the key year, it helps to understand how people paid for and thought about health care before that point. Though people had been seeking help from healers since time immemorial, a great deal had changed ar

With Senate Republicans planning to introduce a new version of a health care bill on Thursday, in their latest attempt to find a way to fulfill the promise to repeal former President Obama’s signature health care law, it’s as clear as ever that, in the words of President Donald Trump , health care is “so complicated.” But, while those complications are traced by some to President Obama’s impact on the system or a half-century back to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid , an even earlier moment is really at the heart of the problem, says Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America’s H

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