Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Public health specialist.

Scope and Contents

Family background; professorship at University of Chicago; reorganization of Chicago City Health Department; development of medical care, costs in 1920s; American Association for Labor Legislation's campaign for health insurance; Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (CCMC); American Medical Association opposition to CCMC's group practice recommendation; voluntary vs. compulsory health insurance; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Milbank Memorial Fund and Cabinet Committee on Economic Security: move from state to national health insurance proposals; public health vs. economic security aspects of legislation; Title VI of Social Security Act; Public Health work; birth of National Institutes of Health, grants-in-aid funding proposals; Social Security Board.

Subjects

• American Medical Association.
• Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Public health personnel--Interviews.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• United States. Social Security Board.

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