Harry Truman proposed passing a “health care for all” plan that would be supported by payroll taxes. Politics-as-usual prevented two such bills from even making it to a vote. In his memoirs …
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt aspired to implement mandatory health insurance in the Social Security Act of 1935 and later, the Wagner National Health Act of 1939. Both efforts failed. FDR did, however, …
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Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to include health insurance reform and expansion as part of his presidential platform. He introduced a bill that would cover those who earned less than $1200 …