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"Health for Three-Thirds of the Nation" : Public Health Advocacy of Universal Access to Medical Care in the United States

Alan Derickson, PhD, MPH

The author is with the Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.



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  		Oscar Ewing (right), administrator of the Federal Security Agency, represents the Truman administration's campaign for national health insurance at the 1949 convention of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Nelson Cruikshank (left) directed the AFL's health reform efforts. (Photo courtesy of George Meany Memorial Archives.)

 


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  		Partisans of universal access in the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, November 29, 1932. Left to right: Harry Moore, Michael Davis, C.-E. A. Winslow, Lewellys Barker. Davis, Winslow, and Barker were members of the committee; Moore served on its staff. (Charles-Edward Amory Winslow Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.)

 


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  		Isidore S. Falk, 1948. (Isidore S. Falk Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.)

 


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  		Public health and labor activists helped to revive interest in universalistic reform in the early 1990s. (Photo courtesy of Paul W. Spear Archives.)

 


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  		Paul B. Cornely, ca. 1955. Cornely played a leadership role in advocating universal access to health services from the 1940s onward. In 1969, he became the first African American president of the American Public Health Association. (Photo courtesy of History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

 




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