Was national healthcare originally a Republican issue?
An except from a former Republican President’s Inaugual Address;
In public health the discoveries of science have opened a new era. Many sections of our country and many groups of our citizens suffer from diseases the eradication of which are mere matters of administration and moderate expenditure. Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Care to guess which Republican president stated this to the nation?
I’ll hazard a guess – Eisenhower
ahh Herbert Hoover
But but this sentence:
“Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education.”
He meant the formation of a body like the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) which was established in 1946 under a Democrat president and not universal healthcare
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