AHA blog: Looking back on the 50th anniversary of the ‘Ameriplan’ report to restructure health care delivery and financing

Nov 30, 2020 - 04:34 PM
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the AHA’s Report of the Special Committee on the Provision of Health Services, the AHA looks back on a report that served as a blueprint for a number of proposals for decades to come on national health insurance and health care reform.

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