This race is about one thing--and one thing only--the working people of Ohio.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I believe it has to do with the sense of urgency.

For example, Universal healthcare has been a Democratic bullet point at least since the days of FDR.

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At about this time in Washington, Republicans, conservative Democrats and the American Medical Association (AMA) were winning their fight to sink President Roosevelt’s proposal for health insurance. Congress was intimidated, and in August 1935 FDR gave up, signing the Social Security Act without health coverage.

Eight years later, in the midst of World War II, he once again called for social insurance “that will extend from the cradle to the grave.” And again, his proposal went nowhere.

On FDR’s death, Harry Truman became president. In his 1948 Message to Congress on the State of the Union, he said:

This great nation cannot afford to allow its citizens to suffer needlessly from the lack of proper medical care. Our ultimate aim must be a comprehensive insurance system to protect all our people equally against insecurity and ill health.

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https://billmoyers.com/story/lbj-launches-medicare-cant-treat-grandma-way/?fbclid=IwAR2voT1HqS2tDyBDfKugLUXSDbZii6so2w4fAIZnNR1pQJtw7S1d8RFa070


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