National Health Insurance — Forever Imminent?

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A physical law of legislative politics holds that if virtually everyone is for something and few are against it, something will be enacted.If the law is valid, why, then, are we still awaiting passage of a national-health-insurance program? Proposals for such insurance formerly provoked raging opposition from one or another segment of medicine and politics. But now, from the White House on down, the naysayers have practically disappeared. In effect, a powerful army sits before an undefended goal but fails to move. Why?The short-term answer is that the veto-slinging Mr. Ford, though committed to eventual passage of an . . .

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