single payer healthcare was not a mainstream political opinion in the USA 30 years ago. not in a M4A sense. similarly, things like lgbt rights and drug reform were WAY more conservative.
the NHS may not have been controversial, but its also not America. so it doesnt pertain here.
single payer healthcare was not a mainstream political opinion in the USA 30 years ago.
The American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL) was pitched all the way back in 1916. FDR pushed the Wagner Bill, National Health Act of 1939 which became the Wagner-Murray- Dingell Bill of 1943. Truman then pitched a plan in 1945 which he continued to lobby for into the 1948 election. Finally, LBJ managed to pass Medicare in 1965, a universal plan specific to the elderly.
This has been a mainstream proposal for over a century.
Single Payer Healthcare wasn't controversial thirty years ago. The NHS wasn't controversial. China wasn't controversial.
We've run so far to the right that we don't even know what old-school "conservative" looks like anymore.
Modern day leftists can't even figure out whether they like Cuba. Sitting Congresswoman Karen Bass was doing volunteer work in Cuba thirty years ago.
None of you are leftists. You're all a bunch of fucking libs.
single payer healthcare was not a mainstream political opinion in the USA 30 years ago. not in a M4A sense. similarly, things like lgbt rights and drug reform were WAY more conservative.
the NHS may not have been controversial, but its also not America. so it doesnt pertain here.
The American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL) was pitched all the way back in 1916. FDR pushed the Wagner Bill, National Health Act of 1939 which became the Wagner-Murray- Dingell Bill of 1943. Truman then pitched a plan in 1945 which he continued to lobby for into the 1948 election. Finally, LBJ managed to pass Medicare in 1965, a universal plan specific to the elderly.
This has been a mainstream proposal for over a century.