# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-p-rice
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:08:46.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-p-rice"
name: "Dorothy P. Rice"
slug: "dorothy-p-rice"
description: "Dorothy Pechman Rice was an American health statistician whose work contributed to the creation of Medicare in the United States. Rice graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began working with the US government soon after, but left the workforce to begin raising a child. Just over a decade later, she returned to government work with a position at the Social Security Administration, where she was one of the first scientists to study the economic cost of illness and exposed a lack of health insurance among the elderly."
tagline: "American health statistician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Photo_of_Dorothy_P._Rice.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1922-06-11"
deathDate: "2017-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump