claim: "before world war ii, very few people actually had health insurance."
author: james carr
evidence_1: sep 5, 2017 ... in fact, the system is largely a result of one event, world war ii, and the wage  freezes and tax policy that emerged because of ... in 1940, about 9 percent of  americans had some form of health insurance. ... the tax break alone could fund  about two people on medicaid. .... that's pretty good advice, actually.
evidence_2: oct 9, 2012 ... world war ii-era wage controls triggered the pre-existing conditions problem ...  because people don't buy insurance for themselves, they have no incentive to ...  hipaa required that small-group health plans could not deny coverage ... for  those who do have coverage gaps, insurers must still offer insurance ...
evidence_3: jul 18, 2017 ... how the health-care industry scared americans off "socialized medicine. ...  mcconnell is proposing to repeal obamacare entirely, with a two-year delay so  his ... but obamacare still leaves nearly 30 million people not covered and, ...  though until world war i there had been some attempts by socially liberal ...
evidence_4: the very idea of health insurance is in some ways the original sin that catalyzed  ... three million people had signed up by 1939 and the concept had been given a  ... despite this, before world war ii, when most treatments were still relatively ...
evidence_5: prior to the 1920's health care was rather inexpensive because most of what it  had to offer ... for the first time, doctors could routinely offer remedies that really  were better than ... by the end of world war ii, health insurance companies had  grown large .... pbms get away with all of this mostly because very few people  know ...