How to Not Go Broke When You Need Healthcare, With Journalist Dan Weissmann
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Socialized Medicine
In the late forties health insurance is becoming a thing lots people have, and becomes ha thing you get from work. After war too, other countries were like, hay, we should have some system for taking care everybody. The american medical association was like, no man, no thanks. And they hired a firm, and this first happened in california. Ti calling it socialized medicine, it's a really good way to make it sound like a crummy idea. And it worked. Then harry truman wanted to do it, and they were like, nomana and they and the idea of socialized medicine revailed.
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