The campaign for some form of universal government-funded health care has  stretched for nearly a century in the US On several occasions, advocates ...  During the Progressive Era, President Theodore Roosevelt was in power and  although he supported health insurance because he believed that no country  could be ...
Aug 12, 2009 ... CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina -- President Barack Obama's campaign for a  health care overhaul is an intense installment in a long-running story, dating to  Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. It did not go well nearly a century ago. Roosevelt  made national health insurance an issue in his last, losing campaign for ...
Sep 9, 2009 ... I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last . (Applause.) It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first  called for health care reform. And ever since, nearly every President and  Congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has attempted to meet this ...
Dec 12, 2016 ... Nearly a century after Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party first called for  health insurance reform, the United States has made major advances in access,  quality, and affordability. In the six years since President Obama signed the  Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, 20 million more people have health ...
Mar 4, 2009 ... ... the nearly 46 millionuninsured, or the millions who have health care but really  can'tafford what they've got.And we didn't get here by accident. The problems we  face todayare a direct consequence of actions that we failed to take yesterday. Since Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform nearly a century ago, ...
Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago.