Nixon's Plan For Health Reform, In His Own Words

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Nixon's Plan For Health Reform, In His Own Words

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This would have a good start for a health insurance plan. The Democrats should have passed it. It could have been improved in succeeding years.


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COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN (CHIP)

Early last year, I directed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to prepare a new and improved plan for comprehensive health insurance. That plan, as I indicated in my State of the Union message, has been developed and I am presenting it to the Congress today. I urge its enactment as soon as possible.

The plan is organized around seven principles:

First, it offers every American an opportunity to obtain a balanced, comprehensive range of health insurance benefits;
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Second, it will cost no American more than he can afford to pay;
Third, it builds on the strength and diversity of our existing public and private systems of health financing and harmonizes them into an overall system;

Fourth, it uses public funds only where needed and requires no new Federal taxes;

Fifth, it would maintain freedom of choice by patients and ensure that doctors work for their patient, not for the Federal Government.

Sixth, it encourages more effective use of our health care resources;

And finally, it is organized so that all parties would have a direct stake in making the system work--consumer, provider, insurer, State governments and the Federal Government.

more:

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/September/03/nixon-proposal.aspx

[EC]

1. I remember this, then he ventured off into

HMO land...

[Greyhound]

2. Nixon had his puppet masters, too. n/t

[dtotire]

3. This Was Dated Feb 1974

Isn't that the year that the Watergate scandal erupted and ultimately forced Nixon to resign? Perhaps that is why it was never implemented.

[Hekate]

4. Dammit, Dick Nixon, why did you let your demons bring you down? He signed the EPA too...

Nowadays that would be unthinkable for a Republican.

I hated Nixon with a passion that only faded when we had Bush the Lesser to deal with. But as evil as Tricky Dick could be, he was (unlike Baby Caligula) intelligent and living in the reality-based world.

Hekate