OK you guys...Which president was the first to propose national health care and what party did he belong to?

Question

OK you guys...Which president was the first to propose national health care and what party did he belong to?

Answer 1

Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party, election of 1912.

Ironically, the American Federation of Labor opposed it.

Answer 2

FDR and he was a Democrat.

Answer 3

harry s Truman and he was a Democrat

Answer 4

Theodore Roosevelt started the push for universal health care in the election of 1912.  He was a candidate for the Progressive Party at the time.

Answer 5

I think it was Nixon, he was a Republican

Answer 6

No matter who it was it was long before the AMA made their wishes known.