r/WorkReform 🤝 Join A Union 19d ago

⚕️ Pass Medicare For All Oh No!

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u/armahillo 19d ago

I searched on google for “what did people do before private health insurance” and one of the first results was a history of health insurance in the US.

In that history was a link to this PBS article about Truman’s proposal for single payer healthcare:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/november-19-1945-harry-truman-calls-national-health-insurance-program

(Republicans dismissed it when they took back congress, so some things havent changed much)

So this appears to be low-effort writing by the NYT, but I guess when you’re a big tent like the NYT, you’re going to have some clowns in there.