Who paid doctors / physicians before health insurance or socialized

>>3132698
>Who paid doctors / physicians before health insurance or socialized medicine?

THE PATIENTS, OR THEIR RELATIVES.

>How did they make a living?

THEY WORKED.

Private doctors were paid by their patients. Poor people went to hospitals, where you basically went to get tended to by nuns so you wouldn't be a burden. You wouldn't want to go to a hospital, since they were basically hospices*
*This applies to Medieval times

It used to be that nuns and holy orders would handle a lot of emergency health care, and would often do it for free

Your question is predicated on the idea that throughout history sick people always received medical care. In practice, the idea that all humans have the right to quality healthcare is a fairly modern one. In the West, the principle seems to stem from Christianity.

Most rural people would have sought the aid of folk healers or shamans. These kind of healers would have practiced pretty openly in rural areas until hysteria over witchcraft in the late middle ages/early modern era would have pushed them underground.

Physicians in the Greco-Roman world would have been the purview of the more affluent citizens. There were wealthy patrons who sponsored physicians to treat the urban poor. This model would been seen in China and India, as well.

There were temples of Asclepius dedicated to healing pilgrims, but I don't know how much actual medicine would have been practiced. The concept of a hospital didn't really show up in the Roman world until the 6th century. In Constantinople and other large cities there were teaching hospitals to train junior physicians, staffed by nurses and orderlies. The poor were treated for free, wealthier patients would have been asked to make a donation.

In 19th century America hospitals began offering payment programs where people could make routine payments rather than per procedure. Over time this evolved into health insurance as seen today.

>>3132698
People who could afford to pay paid a little extra, and people who couldn't afford to pay would be treated for free.

People think that before socialized medicine poor people would be left to die in the street, but that is far from the truth. Before the onslaught of cultural marxism people lived in tight-knit communities and people were not abandoned to their fate, but rather helped, which is why doctors would take care of poor people for free. Of course nowadays, in our atomized socialist society this kind of community spirit has been extinguished.

>>3132868
Yeah I figured it was more like that because in old movies and novels it seems like everyone, rich or poor, are depicted receiving care via house call.

>>3132868
so
Socialism makes us live separated
and
Free Market gets us together

you need to go back

>>3132925
well he said cultural marxism was the cause not socialism, they're two different things

>>3132868
Yeah, the industrial revolution had nothing to do with it, it was just those evil marxists

Cities had contracts with plague doctors who could only treat victims of plague and had to remain isolated from the community. They were mostly junior physicians.

>>3132925
Pretty much. What do you think had the tighter community spirit, a small 1950s American town? Or a section 8 housing project today?

>>3132974
Yes, it has nothing to do with it. Marxists take pride in the destruction of the family, of tradition, and of communities. Their goal is to replace all those things with the State.

>>3132836
His post actually never implied that all sick are treated so the premise of that entire wall of text you just posted is false so I didn't read anything after that. Take care!