America was on its way to creating a holistic health-care system until which of the following events marked the beginning of a change of focus for health care?
a. Discovery of sulfa in the 1930s
b. Introduction of health-care insurance in the 1940s
c. Immigration of Europeans in the 1920s
d. Rural to urban migration of people in the 1950s
A
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