When we first got Social Security, it was supposed to include a healthcare component. The Roosevelt administration did not think it could get through that session of Congress & expected it to happen the next year. The rest is history. Social insurance was introduced to the planet by Otto von Bismarck, hardly a pinko, seeking to ensure the domestic tranquility in the young German Empire with this rift on an idea by the Jewish jurist & social activist Ferdinand Lassalle which he, Bismarck, thought would inoculate Germany against socialism. This pivotal historical note is virtually never discussed by advocates for single payer health care.
When we first got Social Security, it was supposed to include a healthcare component. The Roosevelt administration did not think it could get through that session of Congress & expected it to happen the next year. The rest is history. Social insurance was introduced to the planet by Otto von Bismarck, hardly a pinko, seeking to ensure the domestic tranquility in the young German Empire with this rift on an idea by the Jewish jurist & social activist Ferdinand Lassalle which he, Bismarck, thought would inoculate Germany against socialism. This pivotal historical note is virtually never discussed by advocates for single payer health care.