Health Care Reform Mysteries: Health care reform hero

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Monday, September 7, 2009

HCR Heroes

HERO

Senator Brown's explanation. See item #21

Sunday, August 30, 2009

HCR Heroes

Kennedy on "the cause of my life"

A Hundred Years of Effort

Teddy Roosevelt (US President 1901-1909)
First to call for national health coverage for all, proposing it in his losing 1912 campaign.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S. President 1933-1945)
Wanted national insurance, but had to drop it from the Social Security bill.

Harry S. Truman (U.S. President 1945-1953)
Sent a bill to Congress that never passed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. President 1953-1961)
Tried to cover high risk and low income people, but failed twice.

John F. Kennedy (U.S. President 1961-1963)
Tried to get a version of medicare passed, but failed.

Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. President 1963-1969)
Passed Medicare--national healthcare for the elderly & disabled-- after much arm-wrestling. Saw to it that Truman received the first Medicare card.

Richard M. Nixon (U.S. President 1969-1974)
Proposed universal coverage through private insurers with government subsidies. Watergate quashed the idea.

William J. Clinton (U.S. President 1993-2001)
Tried and failed to pass universal health care.

George W. Bush (U.S. President 2001-2009)
Passed problematic prescription drug coverage for Medicare.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

HCR Heroes

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HCR Heroes

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