Health Care Delivery in America

Health Care Delivery in America
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The shock of medical technology on growth in health care expenditure has long been a subject of essential interest, more so in the context of long-term projections of health spending where issues of historical trends to present times are discussed. This paper seeks to guesstimate a rough range for the input of technological change to growth in health, its historical perspective and how technological advance has affected the public opinion of the change in health care system.
If one is to look at the health care delivery in America, it would be fundamental to have an overview of the history of how health delivery was before. The US was used to a Family medicine system and Cumming up with a brief history of family medicine in US medicine history will help up examine future challenges as well the future of medicine projects (Stephens, 1982).
It is true to say that most of the people in US undergoes training and practicing medicine without getting any prescribed education concerning the history of medicine in the US more so that of Family medicine. Knowing where the health delivery system came from, what forces and people have influenced to the specialty, the struggle, accomplishment and disappointment that the discipline has faced is some of the vital issues to be considered.
We are the products of the history and one can say that we situate in the shoulders of many who made family Medicine possible. This history does not only explain the past but also provides a framework for understanding the present and enables us to move forward. According to Dr. Stephens the great founder of our specialty said , "medicine is always the child of its time and cannot escape being influenced and shaped by contemporary ideas and social trends"
Historical perspectives
It was in the 1800s when the US was still settled in small towns, and their economy was that of farming and products of goods....