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.
Silencing Your Liberty: The De-Civil Rights Movement
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In the 1960s, brave Americans—many young, many Black, many poor—put their
bodies on the line to claim a seat at the table of democracy. They fought
for rig...
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