Academic Perspective

The healthcare debate this summer was marked by raucous shouting, grandstanding, and distortions of the plans being considered, but out of it emerged a healthcare proposal that has already passed in the House of Representatives and is currently under consideration in the Senate. [...]

Healthcare: Part 2. Congress’s Healthcare Bill “At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without universal health insurance.” This quote comes from Progressive Magazine, and was published in 1917. At that point, one attempt to reform the American healthcare system by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 had [...]