POLI 172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Savings Account, Physical Security, Food Policy
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Many of our most highly ranked presidents were proponents of national health insurance: both roosevelts, truman, kennedy, johnson add nixon, carter and clinton. All had either experienced grave personal illness or been witness to untreated or untreatable illness. T. r. lost his wife giving birth to their first child; witnessed the impact of malaria in the spanish american war. Fdr experienced polio; truman had been paralyzed for six months at the age of 7 while suffering from diphtheria. Jfk had a mentally disabled sister; he suffered a spinal injury and. During all of their administrations all of them were accused of socialism for their support of policies to increase access to health care. Began in 1800s healthcare for veterans. Research, regulation, taxation, food and nutrition support, and health insurance programs for seniors and the poor. Dozens of federal agencies are devoted to disease prevention and health promotion.