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Marine Hospital Service
Founded by act of Congress in 1798, the Marine Hospital Service was the first federal-level mechanism to provide publicly-funded health care and disease prevention in the United States. It was the point of origin for the Public Health Service and thus such present day institutions as the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a host of other federal-level health programs.
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