7 Healthcare Reforms, Ideas in a Century of Change

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is hardly the first healthcare reform debated in the United States.

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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