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.
"Republicans, before the Donald Trump cult took hold, frequently railed
(rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized
industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for the
free flow of reliable information. Well, well. How times have changed"
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Sadly, but predictably, rather than reject these practices when they come
from the Oval Office, corporate America, like Republicans more generally,
has g...
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