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Health Care A HISTORICAL LOOK INTO THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM “Look into the past, for on its pages is written history of the future.” This remains true for our American health care system, since many past events have provided the framework for the system today. Therefore, to better understand the present, it is imperative to gape at the past. In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote: Without health there is no happiness. And attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit. I know the difficulty with which a strenuous man tears himself from his studies at any given moment of the day; but his happiness, and that of his family depend on it. The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest person in poor health. The purpose of “health care to promote health” appears to be true. Let us define what health care is. Kovner points out three aspects of health care. First, those services delivered by personnel engaged in medical occupations, care, health, access, satisfaction, research, respondents, planning, need, area, services, insurance, consumers, 1998, survey, question, plan, modal, high, healthcare, age, writer, satisfied, retirement, quality, pennsylvania, number, elderly, changes, time, should, providers, provider, problem, order, one