Long history of trying to get Americans health care

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Thinking about Ted Kennedy’s various health care initiatives in the 70s got me reading about the history of HCR in the USA.

“Following the world war, President Harry Truman called for universal health care as a part of his Fair Deal in 1949 but strong opposition stopped that part of the Fair Deal.”

“In 1970, three proposals for single-payer universal national health insurance financed by payroll taxes and general federal revenues were introduced”

“In April 1970, Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY) introduced a bill to extend Medicare to all—retaining existing Medicare cost sharing and coverage limits—developed after consultation with Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) and former Johnson administration HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_in_the_United_States

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1. Done in by AMA I Think

It's kind of odd since our inflated health care costs seeming are going to managers/CEOs and probably some specialized doctors. GP, nurses and other low level heath care providers probably aren't seeing much of the $ we put into our health care system.