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TIMELINE



U.S. Health Care System: History and Foundations

Introduction

To understand our current healthcare system, you need to understand the history and how healthcare started and evolved in the United States. Many are doctors and researchers who have gone from anesthesia to the vaccine, through the endoscope and antibiotics. Many have been the inventions and discoveries that have occurred in the last century and a half and have laid the foundations of today's medical science.

These developments have gone unnoticed for many due to the accelerated rate that has given the technology. It was only about a hundred years seemed almost a dream ...