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The US had a free market in health care before the 1960s. Health care was a lot cheaper then, and charity was available for poor people.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
The US had a free market in health care before the 1960s.
Health care was a lot cheaper then, and charity was available for poor people.
- DoveBrown 9y agoAnd health care was a lot worse in the 1960s and before. Let's not pretend that before the 1960s were some golden age. In 1965 infant mortality was 24.7 deaths per live births, in 2016 it was 4.3. Sources: 1965 number from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_20/sr20_020acc.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_20/sr20_020acc.pdf 2016 number from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...
- skookumchuck 9y agoThey've been trending downward in the US since 1800. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1960/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1957/hist_stats_colonial-1957-chB.pdf https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1960/compendia/... You can see by the other stats in the PDF that all measures of health improved dramatically 1800-1960.