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Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

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provide viable medical assistance for its people. The five chapters that comprise this second section of Starrs book support the authors comprehensive investigation as to why this countrys quest  for medical care has been such a struggle. Chapter One - The Mirage of Reform - illustrates the how social insurance came to exist and why America was not an  eager participant in this up-and-coming process. Starrs comparison between the United States and other global communities allows one to gain a significantly better understanding as to the separation of  approach from other countries that has continued to this day where American health care is concerned. As the influx of immigrants flooded America during the Progressive Era, an immediate  panic ensued among the nations citizenry due to the overwhelming number of people the countrys system was now expected to support. One of the most significant reasons there was  much dissension among Americans and their government at that time was due to the fact that more than twenty million immigrants left behind a world of heartbreak and disappointment to  find a new life in the United States between 1880 and 1920. During that span of forty years, nearly thirty-five percent of the American population was not native born  American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly from southern and eastern Europe -- had begun to overtake the country, creating an even greater health  care issue than had heretofore existed (Starr PG). One readily surmises from Starrs account that FDR had no difficulty defeating Hoover in 1932,  rubbing salt in the wound by promising Americans a New Deal, which Hoover vehemently criticized for its tendency to make people dependent upon the government for their economic and social