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Public health and hospital funding continues to grow alongside new social programs.

Date: 1935

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The Social Security Act includes significant subsidies for public health initiatives. Foundations begin to collaborate with state governments in the South to subsidize care by constructing segregated "separate but equal" hospitals that, in reality, are anything but equal.