Hey Republicans, Universal Healthcare, It's your Idea..Own it.

Forthewall

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The irony is the very foundation which gave birth to the ACA/Obamacare comes from the 1993 Republican Response to the Clinton Universal Healthcare Initiative otherwise known as the H.E.A.R.T. Act S1770 of 1993.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...5/ellen-qualls/aca-gop-health-care-plan-1993/

One could say technically it wasn't a Republican Bill, after all it didn't pass and 2 of the 20 co-sponsors were Dems. Fair enough, but let's see who did like it...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1770/cosponsors

Thank Dole, Bennett, and Hatch for the controverial individual mandate idea.

Universal Healthcare is a Republican idea why they disavow it now is beyond comprehension.

Republican Platform 1912 - T. Roosevelt Candidate

Health care was the 11th issue listed under "Social and Industrial Justice," after occupational safety, a child labor prohibition, a minimum wage, "one day's rest in seven" and other progressive ideas.

Acticle 11

"The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice," the platform said. "We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use."

Eisenhower reacted to Democratic proposals for single-payer health care by proposing an expansion of care within the model of private-sector medicine. Eisenhower?s approach was to make permanent the tax break for employer-sponsored health coverage (which remains today) in order to encourage as many Americans as possible to get covered through their workplace. For those who were not employed, Eisenhower proposed that the government "reinsure" private insurance companies to encourage them to add less profitable populations to their coverage rolls.

While historians call the Eisenhower plan relatively "timid," it nonetheless sparked the AMA?s opposition, which helped kill it in Congress.

Truman, although a Dem had his own unsuccessful run for Universal Healthcare but was greeted to identical tea party-like protests of Socialism.

Nixon made a run at as well...

"Nixon offered separate proposals to expand health insurance to all, or nearly all, Americans. Generally speaking, they involved employer mandates to provide health insurance, supplemented by subsidies for poorer Americans.

"I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health-insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses," he said in 1974."

Unfortunately impeachment ended any hopes for that legislation although Ford endorsed it.

Even Bush Sr put together a rather well thought out plan back in 1991 that got sent to Congress and never saw light of day.

So what has changed? Is it some fear disorder over the mere thought of Socialism? Might it be a lack of confidence because as our Dear leader says, "We always lose"? Why can't we design the world's best healthcare system? Am I fool to believe that the days of American ingenuity cannot bring forth the very best model for Universal Healthcare?
 

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