National Health Insurance Debate Under Nixon
Written by Dr. Wealth on August 30th, 2010
In 1971, President Nixon proposed a national health insurance plan built on heavily employer private coverage. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed what would today be called a single-payer plan. In 1974, the debate had morphed into Nixon vs. Kennedy-Mills vs. Organized labor. Despite the prediction in the second clip shown, the result was stalemate rather than passage in 1974 or 1975.
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Tags: Health Insurance, Kennedy-Mills, Nixon, organized-labor, Ted-Kennedy
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