Enough about Hillary's negatives

[wyldwolf]

90. Aha - I stand HALF corrected

Truman's plan was a volunteer plan... open to anyone who wanted to pay into it. Much like an insurance company owned by the Federal government. Not exactly universal or single payer but, yeah, Truman did get a major health care overhaul before congress.

The Clinton plan was much more of a Universal one though still not single payer. The Clinton health plan required each US citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their disenrollment until covered by another plan. It listed minimum coverages and maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses for each plan. It proposed the establishment of corporate "regional alliances" of health providers to be subject to a fee-for-service schedule.

LBJ's medicare bill wasn't a universal plan. It only covered the elderly.