Health care has been around for a long time. Not always the same way though. "The first inssurence company is believe to have appered during the colonial era."p.5-Cohn, Jonathan. SICK Horper Collins. NY.2007 That inssurence company was the start of a great life for many people around the world, and also the downfall for many around the world. During the 20th century, health inssurence was starting to become really popular, and it was what many were discussing about. A lot of people were very excited for what was to come, and how this new thing could bring happiness to millions of people. Almost everyone was interested in what it was, and how to get it.
People wanted to know how to get it, and once they did know, everyone was happy, and excited to be soon getting something that they thought would always be the answer to sickness. A woman broke her ankle, and was taken to Baylors hospital, into the emergency room. She becam the first woman, and person, to utilize the NEW health care. "Hospital administators around the country copied the model, and improved on it from Baylors emergency room." p. 8-Cohn, Jonathan. SICK Horper Collins. NY.2007. This was real good information(aside from the broken ankle part). Since other hospital administrators found out what happened, they used that to their advantage, and built off of it. Blue cross was also built off of this.
In our current culture, the ill and dying sometimes don't have a choice on what they should do, because sometimes they are not physically/mentally able to do so. That is why when someone is dying, usually their family comes in to see them, and the doctor will have to ask the family what to do about it, becase the sick person is unable to. It's kind of funny. Our culture gives the right for people to decide when and where someone is gonna die.
With illness and dying, isolation vs. community is a big part. There was a part in Stigma, where someone was sick, and because of that, they were isolated from the people who were regular."Stigma refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifer. The signs were cut or burnt into the body and advertised that the bearer was a slave, a criminal, or a traitor."p.1- Goffman, Erving.STIGMA: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Preritice Hall.NJ.1963. Illness and dying back then did determine being isolated, or being put into a community. That being said, im guessing it must have stressful if anyone got sick. Imagine your mother or father getting sick, having to stay away from them, or maybe since they are your parents, you will have to stay with them. Then you will be an outcast also. Illness and dying has affected people for a long time mentally, physicall, and socially. From being labled as an outcast to having people deciding wheather you live or die, and deciding if you are no longer cut out for having health inssurence.
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