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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
Despite ongoing media and political attack, Barack Obama’s health reforms are succeeding. Given the poor record of most major health legislation, what can we learn from this?
Some 50 years ago Lyndon Baines Johnson changed the foundations of healthcare in the US. Although overshadowed by the Vietnam war, Medicare and Medicaid offered the old and vulnerable in America vital medical protection.
Since Theodore Roosevelt first proposed national health insurance more than 100 years ago, the US has struggled to put in place anything close to a national health system. Johnson aside, major health reform has eluded all the modern presidents. Until now.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/feb/03/obamacare-lessons-nhs-healthcare
Some 50 years ago Lyndon Baines Johnson changed the foundations of healthcare in the US. Although overshadowed by the Vietnam war, Medicare and Medicaid offered the old and vulnerable in America vital medical protection.
Since Theodore Roosevelt first proposed national health insurance more than 100 years ago, the US has struggled to put in place anything close to a national health system. Johnson aside, major health reform has eluded all the modern presidents. Until now.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/feb/03/obamacare-lessons-nhs-healthcare