Anne Ramsay Somers papers 1955-2006

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Anne Ramsay Somers papers 1955-2006

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The papers consist of correspondence, project files, speeches and presentations, writings and topical files all relating to health insurance and health care, particularly in its financial aspects in the United States, geriatric medicine, and long-term care financing. Important correspondents include Odin W. Anderson, Robert M. Ball, Frederick W. Brown, Wilbur J. Cohen, Merlin K. DuVal, Melvin A. Glasser, Philip R. Lee, James Mackenzie, Robert J. Myers, Ernest W. Saward, and Robert M. Sigmond. The writings include texts articles, letters to the editor, and reviews of published monographs. Also included are speeches, presentations, and essays written between 1968 and 2003. The project and topical files contain memoranda, reports, clippings, research notes, and correspondence from government agencies, individuals, and private groups. There are also several reports on the New Jersey Department of Health in 1974 and a script for a series of television programs featuring health and hospital programs in New Jersey (1970). In addition there are chronological files of professional meetings attended by Somers with related correspondence, printed matter, and writings. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

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United States. Department of Health and Human Services

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Somers, Anne Ramsay

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Anne Ramsay Somers, educator, author, and health consultant, was born in 1913. From 1937-1942 she served as educational director of the ILGW Union. Somers worked as a labor economist in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1943-1946, and was a research associate at Haverford College from 1957-1963. She was a faculty member at Princeton and a professor of community and family medicine at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School. From the description ...

Mackenzie, James

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Myers, Robert James, 1909-....

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Saward, Ernest W.

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American diabetes association

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Brown, Frederick Winfield, 1908-

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Ball, Robert M.

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Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987

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Wilbur J. Cohen was Director of the Research and Statistics Bureau of the Wisconsin Health, Education and Welfare Department and the author of several texts on Social Security. From the guide to the Wilbur J. Cohen, Papers, 1937-1942, (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.) Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1976. (Columbia Univ...

New Jersey. State Dept. of Health.

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Lee, Philip R. (Philip Randolph), 1924-

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Biographical Statement Philip Randolph Lee was Chancellor of the University of California San Francisco from 1969-71, and then became Director of the Health Policy Program (later expanded and renamed the Institute for Health Policy Studies) at UCSF (1972-1993). He left IHPS in 1993 to join the Clinton Administration as Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (1993-1997) before returning to UCSF and...

Glasser, Melvin A.

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Melvin Glasser was born in New York and graduated from the City College of New York. He earned his master's degree in social work from the New York School of Social Work. During the Truman administration, Glasser was the executive director of the Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth. He also served as director of the United Auto Workers and director of the Health Security Action Council. Melvin Glasser died in 1995. From the guide to the Melvin Glasser papers, 195...

Sigmond, Robert M., 1920-

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Anderson, Odin W. (Odin Waldemar), 1914-

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Authority on the sociological and economic aspects of health services. From the description of The papers of Odin W. Anderson, 1921-1991. (American Hospital Association). WorldCat record id: 25364340 ...

Duval, Merlin K.

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