I'll tell you what's gonna happen with healthcare and the GOP

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5. We should have had Single Payer back in 1953. It wasn't even a new idea then.

Presidential Efforts

Efforts to enact a single payer system in the United States date back to Franklin
Roosevelt. When devising Social Security he originally proposed a comprehensive
system of nationalized health care along the single payer model. Truman also made
attempts to bring single payer legislation through Congress but was defeated in 1953.
Lyndon Johnson had a plan to insure all Americans via a single payer system. He
originally proposed Medicare and Medicaid to cover everyone, but had to scale back his
proposal because of political opposition. Richard Nixon did not propose a single payer
system, but did propose mandates that required all employers to provide coverage. Most
recently, the Health Security Act of 1992 followed Bill Clinton’s campaign rhetoric of
“managed competition.” Though he rejected the idea that this proposal was a single
payer model, most who actually read the legislation referred to it as “single payer in
drag!” Barack Obama has said, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal
health care plan...that’s what I’d like to see. But, as all of you know, we may not get
there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House and we’ve got to
take back the Senate and we’ve got to take back the Congress.”* By the time you read
this, he may have done just that!

http://www.easybenefitstatements.com/documents/A-History-of-Single-Payer-Health-Care-Efforts-US.pdf