1978 –President Jimmy Carter’s attempt to achieve “comprehensive”
healthcare coverage fails before it even starts. Infighting among Democrats
kills the effort before the details of the plan are released to Congress and
the public.
1993 – Lack of consensus among Democrats and conservative opposition
doom President Bill Clinton’s proposal for universal healthcare coverage.
The plan, overseen by First Lady Hillary Clinton, would have mandated
employer-purchased care and heavy regulation of insurance providers.
Congressional Republicans propose the individual mandate as an alternative.
2003 – President George W Bush secures a massive expansion of Medicare
to provide the elderly with benefits for prescription drugs. A similar plan
had been controversially passed under President Ronald Reagan, but repealed
a year later.
2010 – “Obamacare” passes Congress after more than a year of vehement
debate. The individual mandate and many consumer protection provisions are
included, but a government-run “public option” is dropped from the bill.
Florida and other states file legal challenges to the mandate mere hours
after the bill’s passage.
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