JFK: Role of the Government - Health Care

[OhioChick]

Do any of you remember this speech? I wasn't born yet but my parents loved the man.

[Sherman A1]

1. It is a damn shame that we have to continue to have

This discussion and argument decades after JFK and Harry Truman spoke to it. We should have national healthcare and it should have been implemented in the 1940s.

[rampartc]

2. bernie does not sound very radical, does he?

[appalachiablue]

3. K/R How many millions, billions of citizens' $$ has gone to private

health ins. and care? Social Security/Medicare enacted in the 1930s under FDR was supposed to expand to 60 year olds, 50 year olds, 40, 30 and so on. Never happened, obstructed for generations.

[Nitram]

4. This is what the Democratic Party has been trying to accomplish ever since FDR's administration.

All the Democratic candidates want the government to insure that every American has access to affordable health care.

[rurallib]

5. Looks like part of this speech

JFK'S "HEALTH CARE" SPEECH FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (MAY 20, 1962)

Seems like another world, doesn't it? A president who could speak full and coherent sentences.
Imagine what a mess this country would have without Medicare. We may find out if Trump steals another election.

[0nirevets]

6. When asked, I have for decades identified as a Kennedy Democrat (JFK, RFK)

Don't Google it or you'll get a jumble of right-wing distortions and flat out lies about JFK economics from the political hack class, who think all you need to know about history can be snatched up with a quick search.

JFK was not just an establishment Dem, he was THE establishment Dem. He stood up for working Americans, worked for social and economic equality, national health care, expanding Social Security, free college, self-adjusting minimum (living) wage, using the American military as a force for peace (no Pax-Americana), ending hunger and poverty, and much more. If you need a label, he was a self-proclaimed liberal (gave a great speech about that too), and as always Republicans attacked him and distorted everything he said.

I am liberal and a Kennedy Democrat, and I stand with my party in 2020.