Tomorrow, March 12, will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Health Insurance Act of 1985 (or for you specificists, the 'Enhanced and Expanded Medicare for All Act of 1985
) being signed into law by the late President Edward Kennedy.
Do you have any personal stories of how the NHI Act has impacted your life? I know that I've got a ton, personally. Back before the law was passed, my parents didn't have any form of health insurance, and were really iffy about the idea of having any children. And then, viola, the Kennedy administration managed to get the NHI Act passed shortly after his re-election a year earlier (which makes things stickier in my household because Dad was a Connally supporter
). Having access to health insurance changed my parents' plans, and as a result, I was born not too long after that.
I can scarcely imagine a United States of America without our Medicare system. In fact, it almost makes me want to ask if it's even possible after some point in 1980 for the U.S. not to have gotten a form of UHC. Maybe if Ford had lost in '76 and we'd gotten Carter or Reagan instead of Teddy Kennedy?
Do you have any personal stories of how the NHI Act has impacted your life? I know that I've got a ton, personally. Back before the law was passed, my parents didn't have any form of health insurance, and were really iffy about the idea of having any children. And then, viola, the Kennedy administration managed to get the NHI Act passed shortly after his re-election a year earlier (which makes things stickier in my household because Dad was a Connally supporter
I can scarcely imagine a United States of America without our Medicare system. In fact, it almost makes me want to ask if it's even possible after some point in 1980 for the U.S. not to have gotten a form of UHC. Maybe if Ford had lost in '76 and we'd gotten Carter or Reagan instead of Teddy Kennedy?