History Of Health Care Reform

The NYT (yes, I will miss linking to it) has put together a fabulous timeline.

Teddy Roosevelt was actually suggesting we look to the Germans for a model.

"Former President Theodore Roosevelt campaigns on the Progressive Party ticket promising national health insurance, along with women's suffrage, safe conditions for industrial workers and other social issues. 'What German has done in the way of old-age pensions or insurance should be studied by us, and the system adapted to our uses,' he said. Roosevelt is defeated by Woodrow Wilson." 1912