Single-Payer Reform

Introduction Proposals U.S. single-payer reform have long history. A 1943 bill subsequently endorsed by president Harry Truman in 1945 envisioned national health insurance funded through payroll taxes.

However, medicare , in 1950´s enacted in 1965, embodied the single-payer model. Medicareś architects saw it as the cornerstone of a national health insurance system. They believed the medicare would eventually expand-with children perhaps the next group to join the
Program to cover the entire population. That aspiration was never realized .Mean while congress created medicaid as a separte program for some categuneś of low -income americans,including families.

Single -payer enjoyed strong support doing the early 1970ś among liberal democrats