Like any president Nixon got on the phone with his friends on the hill to get a bill rolling. A film crew was there at the time. The Nixon library should have the clip. Truman wanted to create a single payer system and failed. Ike moved no heath care legislation. Kennedy died but set the ground work for Medicare which Johnson finished. Nixon did this.
Like any president Nixon got on the phone with his friends on the hill to get a bill rolling. A film crew was there at the time. The Nixon library should have the clip. Truman wanted to create a single payer system and failed. Ike moved no heath care legislation. Kennedy died but set the ground work for Medicare which Johnson finished. Nixon did this.
No…just no… it’s from WWII…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/#:~:text=In%25201943%2520the%2520War%2520Labor,of%2520maneuvering%2520around%2520wage%2520controls
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2017/lessons-universal-coverage-unexpected-advocate-richard-nixon
Did you even read your own link? It clearly points out that this began during WWII…
"Truman wanted to create a national health insurance fund run by the federal government (a pre-Medicare single-payer system). "
A single payer system is not an employer offered system. It’s Medicare.