Foreword
For more than a century, U.S. Presidents tried and failed to enact some form of universal health care. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt championed national health insurance during his attempt to regain the presidency as a Progressive Party candidate. President Franklin Roosevelt initially planned to include universal health insurance in the Social Security Act, but removed it under pressure from the American Medical Association. In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon proposed requiring employers to cover their workers, with Federal subsidies to help everyone else buy private insurance, but the Watergate scandal intervened. And famously, the universal health care package developed…
