1932

Report of Committee on the Costs of Medical Care recommend hospital-based group medical practices including physicians, dentists, nurses, technical personnel, supported by an extension of public health services, government and private, and with group prepayment schemes: each person would purchase an insurance policy or contract for specified services to be given by a health service organization – killed by AMA, which identified any group, collective, or institutional mode of practice with “outside or governmental influence” (Stevens, 183-88). American College of Surgeon joined American Hospital Association – and disagreed with AMA – in endorsing voluntary hospital insurance schemes in 1933 (Stevens, 190).