To Your Health!

Over sixty years ago, President Harry Truman gave a speech to Congress, outlining problems with health care in America and proposing solutions. A major problem he noted was “the high cost of individual medical care.” To palliate this, he proposed a national health insurance plan. Although he repeated four times in his speech that was he was proposing was “not socialized medicine,” a vicious campaign, lead mostly by the  American Medical Association, branded the proposal as communist and heralded the death of the proposed reform.