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This 4-page paper is a discussion about the proposed health care policies of presidents Bill Clinton and Harry Truman, and why neither passed muster with the public or Congress. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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much of that was for publicity and show, Clinton did have some valid points in comparing himself with a president who was in office between 1945 and 1952. The other
link these two share is that they were both proponents for a changed health care system; and both called for some kind of universal health care coverage. In addition, both
presidents faced skeptical Congresses who had their own agendas when it came to health care, and both introduced legislation to these Congresses that was probably more than the legislative bodies
could handle (Borger, 1994). Although 50 years separated the presidency of these two men, they were brothers in the sense that neither had much luck passing solid health care reform
programs. In terms of Clintons vision of health care during the mid-1990s, he had the vision of legislation that would combine government
and private interaction into an effective, affordable health care plan for all (Goldfield, 1996). Clintons policy focused mainly on the idea of "managed competition," in other words, the fact that
health care providers would compete with one another, while extending coverage basically to all U.S. citizens, regardless of those citizens inability to pay (Goldfield, 1996). According to various analysts, the
plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for
Congress to handle (Goldfield, 1996). It has been suggested that Clinton should have concentrated on one thing at a time - for example, either concentrating on the uninsured/underinsured population (which
would have forced a stronger governmental role in health care) or concentrate on reforming the entire system, which likely could have brought down costs and encouraged quality competition (Goldfield, 1996).
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