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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (61689)	8/31/2009 2:36:04 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Let's get a little perspective on this from a personal point of view. It started with Roosevelt. National health care debate goes back to Theodore Roosevelt plan in 1912: Analysis cleveland.com Whoops. Sorry about that. Wrong Roosevelt. And an R, to boot. Anyway, too far back to get up close and personal. Mom's folks were around, but Dad's had only been here a year or two. We won't count this. Soon or Later On: Franklin D. Roosevelt and National Health Insurance, 1933-1945. by Jaap Kooijman Whether we come to this form of insurance soon or later on, I am confident that we can devise a system which will enhance and not hinder the remarkable progress which has been made and is being made in practice of the professions of medicine and surgery in the United States. --Franklin D. Roosevelt With these words, spoken at the Conference on Economic Security in Washington DC on November 14, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised reformers that national health insurance would someday be enacted but at the same time reassured opponents by suggesting that no drastic action would be taken. questia.com My father, 19, was still in JC, I think, about 3 years from Med School. Mom was 14, 5 or 6 years from going to nursing school and trapping herself a doc. In about 9 more years, da Rat would be conceived. Sulfa drugs hit the market while Dad was in Med School. He was in the army in '42, and they were trying to get their hands on this new drug called Penicillin. By now, Rat was a gleam in his folks' eyes. Now, they are both dead. My hair is silver. There is still no national health care. We have liposuction, breast reduction, breast augmentation, and penile enlargement, tho.