The traveling exhibition and companion website explore a history of health care reform, which has been a contentious political issue in the United States for more than a hundred years. Often, the public associates health care reform with presidents and national leaders, but communities, workers, activists, and healthcare professionals have made their voices heard in the debate about whether and how to make quality health care available to all. For All the People tells the lesser-known story of how movements of ordinary citizens helped shape the changing American health care system.
For All the People includes a digital gallery that features a curated selection of fully digitized items from the historical collections of the NLM, which are also available in their entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website.