Oral history interview with Isidore S. Falk [electronic resource], 1968

Biographical Note

Public health specialist, medical economist.

Scope and Contents

Early interest in health insurance; teaching at University of Chicago and service on Chicago Board of Health, 1923-1929; Committee on Costs of Medical Care; effect of recommendation for group practice and group payment; voluntary vs. compulsory insurance; New Deal and background of Social Security legislation; Technical Committee and Advisory Council, Committee on Economic Security; Social Security Board, 1936; National Health Survey, 1935-1936; National Health Conference, 1938; Technical Committee on Medical Care; legislative efforts to explore and expand role of federal government in health insurance. Impressions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, Arthur Altmeyer, Edgar Sydensticker, and many others.

Subjects

• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.
• Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Medical economists--Interviews.
• Medicare.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Public health personnel--Interviews.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Social Security Administration.
• United States. Social Security Board.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976.