Does anyone else remember the Carter plan for national health insurance? I don’t remember that subject being a major issue at all while Carter was president. Is he now trying to score political points against a dead Kennedy? Is Carter doing revisionist history to paint himself in the best possible light? Does Carter realize that he has gone down in history as an insignificant weak president, not unlike Franklin Pierce or Chester Arthur or Benjamin Harrison????
I don’t remember it either
These folks weem to think there is something on health care - back in the day - Carter and all the other presidents.
From
http://www.ontheissues.org/Jimmy_Carter.htm
Pushed national health-insurance bill. (Dec 2000)
Liberal on National Health Insurance. (Jan 1997)
Supports national health insurance. (Oct 1976)
Supports more funding for education & research. (Oct 1976)
Specifically-
Supports national health insurance:
Let me outline for you some of the goals of the next administration in the area of health [insurance]:
We must have a comprehensive program of national health insurance.
We must have government reorganization that will end the bureaucratic fragmentation that now frustrates any hope for a rational and effective national health care policy.
We must encourage alternative delivery systems such as HMOs and rural group practices.
We must clean up the disgraceful Medicaid scandals.
Source: Public Health speech, in “Good As Its People,” p. 231-33 Oct 19, 1976
SO ya, fraud has been an issue for Medicare since before 1976. Politicians (both sides) have done soooo well by us, eh?
Newsweek Magazine, May 22, 1979. Fat Teddy pushing his plan over the Peanut's plan.
He probably looks with pride on the damage he did to the nuclear power industry, the Panama Canal, the birth of the financial crisis we are in, etc.
I will always remember the quote from Carter's mother, Miss Lillian: "I should have remained a virgin."
(Okay, brother Billy helped inspire that sentiment...)
Yes to both. Thats why he has spent the last 30 years self agrandazing himself and writing 30 books nobody has read. His shame and humiliation is profound .