Believe it or not, in February 1917 Congressman Meyer London of New York won bipartisan support in the House of Representatives (189-138) for a commission to make recommendations to President and Congress concerning mandatory "social insurance" including health insurance. His approach, a presidential commission, was the one Franklin Roosevelt followed two decades later in developing his version of social insurance, the Social Security Act of 1935.
Back in 1916 and 1917, health insurance was expected to be "the next great...
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