Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill
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The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill was a 1945 proposal to institute a national medical and hospitalization program. Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-New York), Senator James E. Murray (D-Montana), and Representative John D. Dingell, Sr. (D-Michigan) introduced it to the 79th United States Congress on November 19, 1945.[1] The bill, part of President Truman 's Fair Deal program,[2] was not passed. It is notable as an effort for health care reform in the United States.
A similar bill of the same name was introduced in 1943 but not enacted. The 1943 attempt was distinct.[3]
Henry Kraus' book, In the City was a Garden, is about experiences of the resident's council of a World War II Garden Apartment (FHA) housing project for the war effort in San Pedro Ca. Chapter VI - Kaleidoscope of Change, gives an extended account of attempts to provide medical clinics in the projects and the California Medical Association response against what it called "government medicine." From a historical perspective, it is an interesting read on that subject and others of the time period.
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