In , France's new anti-Christian government attempted to disband the order. At the request of President Abraham Lincoln, over Sisters of Charity served during the Civil War on battlefields and in military hospitals. Over Sisters of Charity served during the Spanish-American War of , where diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, and malaria killed more soldiers than combat.
Whereas Catholic healthcare began by focusing more on the hereafter, being motivated to prepare a person's soul for death and meeting God, Protestant healthcare focused more on the here and now, being motivated to clean up the slums in crowded cities and send medical missionaries to undeveloped countries. Wealthy individuals donated and provided in their wills to continue these religious ministries of charity.
Both Catholic and Protestants pioneered free healthcare for the poor 'uninsurable' because they were motivated by Christian religious convictions.
The New York Times wrote, August 20, , that Catholic nuns were trained to "see Jesus in the face of every patient. Mother Teresa stated: "I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus.
The Judeo-Christian religious convictions which motivated people of faith to selflessly provide free healthcare for the poor for over a thousand years are now considered insignificant by utilitarian central planners. Get the book, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quottions The Catholic Church is the largest religious denomination in the United States and is the nation's largest medical care provider with hospitals and long-term health care facilities.
Department of Health and Human Services HHS to force virtually all employers to include sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion , in the health insurance coverage they provide their employees That exemption News from AmericanMinute. Physicians also provided the impulse for the establishment of early hospitals as a means of providing medical education and as a source of prestige.
When middle- or upper-class persons fell ill, their families nursed them at home. By late in the century, however, as society became increasingly industrialized and mobile and as medical practices grew in their sophistication and complexity, the notion that responsible families and caring communities took care of their own became more difficult to apply.
The result was a gradual shift toward the professionalization of health care practices that eventually included the development of a full and competitive commercial market for medical services that increasingly took place in hospitals.
Privately supported voluntary hospitals, products of Protestant patronage and stewardship for the poor, were managed by lay trustees and funded by public subscriptions, bequests, and philanthropic donations. By contrast, Catholic sisters and brothers were the owners, nurses, and administrators of Catholic institutions, which, without a large donor base, relied primarily on fundraising efforts along with patient fees. Public or tax-supported municipal hospitals accepted charity patients, including the aged, orphaned, sick, or debilitated.
Some physicians established proprietary hospitals that supplemented the wealth and income of owners. Owners of not-for-profit voluntary and religious hospitals on the other hand took no share of hospital income.
Physicians also developed specialties such as ophthalmology and obstetrics and opened their own institutions for this new kind of practice. Of all the patients admitted for that year, 37 percent of adults were in public institutions. Public funds included all those from federal, state, county, or municipal sources. Of 5, institutions reporting hospitals, dispensaries, homes for adults and children, institutions for the blind and the deaf , 1, 35 percent were recipients of public aid from one source or another.
Looking only at hospitals, Still, for all institutions taken together, These figures should be interpreted with caution, since hospitals in did not use the same cost accounting principles that we use today. However, the census data suggested that an awareness of the need for public support of hospital care was increasing.
The actual amounts of public appropriations received during , according to geographic region, are shown in Table 1. Regional variations occurred, and there was a predominance of public aid to hospitals in the Northeast. Source: U. Other regional variations in hospital development reflected regional economic disparities, particularly in the South and West, where less private capital was available for private philanthropy.
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During the late Middle Ages beyond the 10th century monastic infirmaries continued to expand, but public hospitals were also opened, financed by city authorities, the church and private sources.
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