id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321548-9f77ksxi Smith, David Barton The Pandemic Challenge: End Separate and Unequal Healthcare 2020-04-17 .txt text/plain 1176 79 57 As the only developed nation that has failed to provide such protection and where a growing population of 27.9 million are uninsured and roughly an equal number have inadequate coverage that still makes essential care unaffordable, we face greater risks. The American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL) during World War I sponsored state legislation to provide health care to industrial workers supported by matching funds from the state, the employers and the employees that had the muted support of organized medicine's national leadership. 11 The Clinton Health Security Act of 1994, relying heavily on HMO contracting in the face of rising opposition to such arrangements from those with private insurance never had a chance. Perhaps this can lead organized medicine, a century long laggard in promoting universal care, to finally question the hollow rhetoric that has supported the status quo of Jim Crow healthcare. ./cache/cord-321548-9f77ksxi.txt ./txt/cord-321548-9f77ksxi.txt