Date of Award:
5-2015
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
History
Committee Chair(s)
Victoria Grieve
Committee
Victoria Grieve
Committee
David Rich Lewis
Committee
Evelyn Funda
Abstract
From the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in 2010, politicians and laypeople have been given much debate on national healthcare. With these circumstances, the study of Farm Security Administration’s health plans, one of the earliest attempts of government sponsored healthcare systems, is both timely and prudent. A study of the FSA becomes a usable past, which one medical historian believed would illustrate “some of the enduring themes that punctuate the debate over the proper role of government in health care.
The research project consisted of exploring primary and secondary documents related to the FSA’s work in Southeastern Utah. The project required resources from the San Bruno branch of the National Archives to understand the national and regional perspectives of the FSA. Furthermore the journals and interviews of original participants were located at Brigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections at the Harold B. Lee Library. Finally, newspaper records of the proceedings were found in the San Juan Record using the Utah Digital Newspapers.
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Recommended Citation
Brumbaough, John Howard Jr., ""We Are Entitled To, and We Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946" (2015). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4589.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4589
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