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Truman first proposed Medicare for the elderly as a compromise after the failure of his effort to create a national health insurance program. The resistance to that modest proposal was ferocious. John F. Kennedy tried and failed repeatedly to pass Medicare; first as a Senator, then as President. This program, first proposed in the late 1940s, did not become law until almost 20 years later. I wonder if it would ever have passed if Kennedy had lived.
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