[lit-ideas] Re: Obama Critique from Hanson
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:01:26 -0700
There is an opinion about by some historians that Franklin Roosevelt
saved capitalism with his few social programs that are now
cherished, which are Socialist. Social Security and Medicare. But
there are those who would repeal it if they could.
Truman was the first president to propose a national health care
system. His efforts failed, among cries of 'Socialized medicine!'
Medicare was created in 1965, when LBJ signed the legislation
authorizing it as part of Social Security. Truman was, ceremonially,
the first to enroll.
Robert Paul
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