Major Healthcare Reform: A Case Study

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Major Healthcare reforms have been established in the past half a century despite the above-list challenging factors. The reform focused on coverage on millions of American citizens through Children Health Insurance Programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Between 1934 and 1939, there was the National Health Insurance New Deal. This period was characterized with growing income inequality with unemployment standing at 25% of the total population (Starr, 2013). There prevailed increased levels of unpaid medical bills with the poor being assisted by welfare agencies to sort out their medical bills. An outcry for government interventions through providing medical relief fell on deaf ears as the top priority issues was tackling the existing unemployment