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The New Dealers,
during Franklin D. Roosevelt's long tenure as President, had hopes of
passing health insurance legislation as part of their overall social welfare
legislative package. At first F.D.R. had intended to include federally
funded medical care as part of his 1935 Social Security bill; however,
pressure from the AMA forced him to drop this insurance plan from this
proposed legislation |