Desire, Expectation and Reality in a Union Health Program
- 23 May 1968
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 278 (21) , 1149-1153
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196805232782106
Abstract
AN overwhelming desire of organized labor — the largest single organized body of consumers —is ready accessibility of comprehensive medical care at a cost that the economy can afford to pay. This need, which is not being met at present, has created such a demand for medical care that today nearly every negotiated wage agreement makes some provision for payment of doctor and hospital bills. When this demand was fortified by the 1946 success of the United Mine Workers of America in establishing its Welfare and Retirement Fund there was only a handful of negotiated medical-care programs. Today, 21 years . . .Keywords
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