Presidents have tried....some made a genuine effort to push it through Congress. Others expressed the desire publicly, but after getting privately muscled by the health care industry, decided to back off from the idea. For instance:
Franklin Roosevelt---Harry Truman-- Eisenhower---Nixon --Lyndon Johnson--Clinton--Obama.
The core problem is that right now about 30% of every health care dollar goes to insurance conglomerate and big pharma overhead and profit, a large part of which represents med…
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Posted on August 27, 2009 at 6:51am —