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The Hospital Shortage.
The Hill-Burton Act.
No Government Control of Medicine.
The Hill-Burton Act expressly forbade governmental interference in the operation of the hospitals. Federal administrators had no say about the amount of funding any state or individual hospital would receive. The states were to estimate regional hospital needs; when an applicant from an area received a grant, the area would go to the bottom of the list and had to wait to apply for further grants. Advocates of the Hill-Burton Act argued that the program would help provide access to hospital care for poor families and impoverished communities that otherwise could not afford to build hospitals. Funding provisions of the act itself, however, gave most federal assistance to middle- income communities. Initially the act required two-thirds of the construction cost to be supplied from local funding sources, meaning the poorest...|
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