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Unpublished 1935 Report On Health Insurance And Disability By The Committee On Economic Security
No national program of economic security can be regarded in any sense as complete or effective without adequate provision for meeting the risks to security which arise out of ill health. Sickness, the loss of earnings because of the disability of the wage earner, the costs of medical care -- these are spectres which haunt the lives of the great majority of the American people....
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Title: Unpublished 1935 Report On Health Insurance And Disability By The Committee On Economic Security
Creator:  Committee on Economic Security (authors)
Date: March 7, 1935
Format: Government Document
Source: Social Security Online History Page
Keywords: Aging; Committee On Economic Security; Demographics; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Employment; Frances Perkins; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government; Government Agencies; Hospitals; Institutions; Insurance; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Physical Disability; Policy; Politics; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Security; Social Welfare & Communities
Topics: Government, Policy & Law