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LanternWaste

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13. Not quite accurate.

Reply to Progressive dog (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 30, 2018, 12:48 PM

Jan 2018

Not very accurate.

"In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Isidore Falk and Edgar Sydenstricter to help draft provisions to Roosevelt's pending Social Security legislation to include publicly funded health care programs. These reforms were attacked by the American Medical Association as well as state and local affiliates of the AMA as "compulsory health insurance." Roosevelt ended up removing the health care provisions from the bill in 1935. Fear of organized medicine's opposition to universal health care became standard for decades after the 1930s"

(Jan Coombs The rise and fall of HMOs: an American health care revolution.)

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1944 poll: Would you rather have Social Security handle health insurance? [View all] yurbud Jan 2018 OP

Vouchers! Gabi Hayes Jan 2018 #1

'Medicare For All' works for me! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2018 #2

I don't believe employer paid insurance was very common until several years later MichMan Jan 2018 #3

It's ironic too, because a lot of people don't realize how much it costs their employer yurbud Jan 2018 #5

FDR chose not to tie Progressive dog Jan 2018 #4

ACA is assaultable because it is a complex incremental program yurbud Jan 2018 #6

Social Security had an incremental Progressive dog Jan 2018 #9

I'm not saying it should have been done up front, but it would have been popular at any time yurbud Jan 2018 #10

Upending over 1/6 of the economy, Progressive dog Jan 2018 #12

I don't think anyone in Washington is thinking of the low level claims processors yurbud Feb 2018 #19

Because the bailout was one time and saved the economy Progressive dog Feb 2018 #20

Medicare is pretty complex Progressive dog Jan 2018 #15

For people ON Medicare, it is relatively simple yurbud Feb 2018 #16

Medicare covers about 1/6 of the population Progressive dog Feb 2018 #17

the 20%, donut holes and the like are the monkey wrenches I mentioned yurbud Feb 2018 #18

So is Social Security. Ken Burch Jan 2018 #7

Social Security is still in business Progressive dog Jan 2018 #8

Not quite accurate. LanternWaste Jan 2018 #13

FDR did not tie medical to social security-that is a fact Progressive dog Jan 2018 #14

People were all for govt programs until civil rights when non whites would benefit JI7 Jan 2018 #11