U.S Healthcare system

U.S Healthcare system
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Part I: The U.S. Healthcare
System

Introduction
U.S Healthcare system consists of both the private and private entities and organizations.

Revolutionary factors
The three revolutionary factors that contributed to the U.S. Healthcare
system are
• First Marine Hospital
• American Medical Association
• Civil War

Major Development
Identification of one major development from the following:
• Financial- market based system.
• Legal- antitrust laws since the year 1970.
• Ethical- Healthcare Ethics Committees and Institutional Review Boards

Major Development
Identification of one major development from the following:
• Regulatory- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), FDA and NIH.
• Social (customer demand)- healthcare product, governmental subsidies and patients are charged lower price, supply of
the healthcare product and services and the degree of availability of the same to the consumers (Andersen, Davidson &
Baumeister, 2014).