With the likely Supreme Court decision on the healthcare law two days away, here are several healthcare reforms and ideas from the last century, according to a Washington Post report.
1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt champions national health insurance in a bid to return to the White House as candidate of the progressive Bull Moose Party.
1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes for Social Security during the Great Depression. FDR also favored creating national health insurance.
1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson and a Democratically-led Congress create Medicare and Medicaid.
1974: President Richard Nixon pushes for requiring employers to cover workers and creating federal subsidies to help people buy private insurance. But then Watergate happens.
1986: President Ronald Reagan signs COBRA, which requires employers to let former workers stay on company health plans for 18 months after leaving a job if the former employee pays for the plan.
1997: President Bill Clinton signs bipartisan legislation to create a state-federal program to provide coverage for millions of children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid, but too low to pay for decent family insurance.
2010: Congress passes the PPACA.
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