Tracing the Political, Legal, and Economic History of Medical Scarcity

Authors:

Anthony Cimino, George Aumoithe

Date Created:

2025-01-01

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About Paper:

As healthcare expenditures in the United States rose in the government officials, and we look forward to the further study 1960s and 1970s, government actors turned away from the goal of physical archives in the Harvard University Archives and the of fulfilling healthcare as a right and establishing a national Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine. Such health insurance system. Rather, health planners and other local correspondence indicates the great influence of health economists and federal policymakers set their sights upon cost containment. over health planners’ decisions. Additionally, collection of legal Decisions to fight inflation and overspending by reducing the treatises and close analysis of federal court decisions in hospital supply of medical services, especially for urban communities closure cases contributed to detailing how the decisions of specific of color and the poor, re-segregated the American healthcare federal judges moved from a standard of disparate impact to system after the progress of the previous decade. Questions discriminatory intent. Ongoing efforts include gathering oral about the ways in which health economists influenced government histories and documents from surviving legal counsel involved in decisionsregardinghospital“underutilization”andtherelationship key cases. Overall, this project points to the persistence of cost between civil rights jurisprudence and discrimination standards containment’s legacy in American hospital planning, intersecting in individual hospital closure cases have guided our research. health economics, federal and local policy, and civil rights law to Annotation of correspondence archived in the papers of the map the transition to healthcare as a managed scarce resource and health economist Rashi Fein has begun to reveal the networks of its far-reaching discriminatory effects on American public health communication and other overlaps between health economists and that continue into the present.

Abstract:

As healthcare expenditures in the United States rose in the government officials, and we look forward to the further study 1960s and 1970s, government actors turned away from the goal of physical archives in the Harvard University Archives and the of fulfilling healthcare as a right and establishing a national Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine. Such health insurance system. Rather, health planners and other local correspondence indicates the great influence of health economists and federal policymakers set their sights upon cost containment. over health planners’ decisions. Additionally, collection of legal Decisions to fight inflation and overspending by reducing the treatises and close analysis of federal court decisions in hospital supply of medical services, especially for urban communities closure cases contributed to detailing how the decisions of specific of color and the poor, re-segregated the American healthcare federal judges moved from a standard of disparate impact to system after the progress of the previous decade. Questions discriminatory intent. Ongoing efforts include gathering oral about the ways in which health economists influenced government histories and documents from surviving legal counsel involved in decisionsregardinghospital“underutilization”andtherelationship key cases. Overall, this project points to the persistence of cost between civil rights jurisprudence and discrimination standards containment’s legacy in American hospital planning, intersecting in individual hospital closure cases have guided our research. health economics, federal and local policy, and civil rights law to Annotation of correspondence archived in the papers of the map the transition to healthcare as a managed scarce resource and health economist Rashi Fein has begun to reveal the networks of its far-reaching discriminatory effects on American public health communication and other overlaps between health economists and that continue into the present.

Source:

Harvard / Harvard College | Quincy House | Linguistics & Economics | 2026 / 2025

Topics:

health, healthcare, government, economist, federal, decision, legal, economic, history, right, hospital, case

Co-authors:

@anthonycimino128 , @georgeaumoithe129