Parran
Americannoun
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While insurance was kept out of the final draft of what would become the 1935 Social Security Act, due to opposition from the American Medical Association, Parran’s advocacy won an increase federal funding for state and local health departments.
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Serious attempts were made, mainly by Thomas Parran Jr., U.S.
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Parran saw medicine and public health as “two facets of a unit problem” and pushed for their integration like Winslow recommended.
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During negotiations for New Deal legislation in the mid-1930s, a national health insurance program was under intense discussion, and Parran made a last-second push to add funding for public health departments.
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Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”
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