Historical Events in US Healthcare System

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Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946:
This act was also called the Hill-Burton Act which is the U.S federal law that had been
passed in the year 1946 during the 79th United States congress. Senator Harold Burton of Ohio
and Senator Lister Hall of Alabama were the main sponsorers. In the year 1945 in November,
the then president Harry S Truman had delivered a special message towards the congress. In this
message, he had stated a five part program that helped in improvement of the health as well as
healthcare of the Americans. This act had been found to have responded to the first of the
proposals of the president Truman which included constructions of hospitals as well as different
related healthcare facilities (Kisacky, 2019). It was designed in ways by which federal grants and
guaranteed loans were provided for improvement of the physical plant of the hospital system of
the nation. At the same time, funds were designated to the states for effective achievement of
about 4.5 beds per 1,000 citizens. The states were also found to have allocated the available
money to the various municipalities. However, the law provided for the rotation mechanism so
that the area which had already received funding gets moved to the bottom of the list for further
funding. The goods things were in order to get under such act, the healthcare centers had to
maintain five important aspects that in turn helped in ensuring quality service to all people
irrespective of their backgrounds. The healthcare centers were not allowed to discriminate based
on caste, creed, race, religion and others and that they had to provide free care to people who
could not afford to pay. The states and localities were also required in proving the economic
viability in question (Chung et al., 2017).

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Founding of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals in 1952:
The joint Commission was renamed as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals in the year of 195. However, it was until the year 1965 when the federal government
found that the Joint commission accreditation was successfully meeting the Medicare conditions
of Participation, only then the accreditation was seen to have any official impacts. In the year in
1951, the joint commission accreditation of the Hospitals was mainly developed by the merge of
the Hospital Standardization Program with that of the different similar types of programs run by
the American College of Physicians, the Canadian Medical Association, the American Medical
Association, and the American Hospital Association (Cobb et al., 2018). In the year 1987, the
company had been renamed as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations. It again went a rebranding in the year 2007 and simplified the name to just the
Joint Commission which now had the tagline "Helping Health Care Organizations Help
Patients." The main mission is to improve the healthcare of the public continuously for
collaborating with the different stakeholders with the help of evaluating the different types of
healthcare organizations effectively and then inspiring them in excelling and providing safe care
of the highest value and quality to patients (Sheils et al., 2016). Their vision of this act is that all
people should get the scope of having experience the safest as well as highest quality best value
health care across all settings.
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act:
Medicare was mainly established in the year 1965 under the name of Title XVIII of the
Social Security Act. This was established as the federal health insurance programs for the service
users who are 65 years or older irrespective of their health status and income. Individuals would