Although our country seems to separate from seams, it is good to review, from time to time, times when it worked. And it is not so that we can feel nostalgic about a lost time, but that we can remember how, given the good conditions, things could work well.
An example of history (and recently rediscovered by a number of blogs during the AHCA debacle at the Congress) is this 1949 government propaganda film – the Harry S. Truman era – which promotes the idea of ​​cradle health care, and all for three hundred per week. This money went to school nurses, nutritionists, family doctors and neighborhood health services.
Directed by Chuck JonesBetter known for animating rabbit bugs, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and The Road Runner, “So much for so little” Follows our main character in early childhood – where doctors help immunize babies against darling, diphtheria, rheumatic fever and smallpox – at school at dating, marriage, becoming parents and settling in good health. Along the way, the government made sure that health care has nothing to fear.
The film won an Oscars in 1950 for a short documentary – not the best science fiction, despite the radical that it all sounds.
So what happened? John Maher on the blog Point and line said it this way::
Partisanary and capitalism and racist zoning policies broke his idealistic dream that Americans could really pay in common for their health as well as that of their neighbors and their fellow citizens.
Three hundred per American per week would not now reduce it in terms of universal health coverage. But according to Maher, citing a 2009 Kingsepp study on the original affordable care law, taxpayers should pay $ 3.61 per week.
So people, don't be discouraged, become idealists. The biggest generation returned from the Second World War with great idealism. Maybe this current generation just needs to fight and defeat the Nazis again …
Note: a previous version of this article appeared on our site in 2017.
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Ted Mills is an independent writer on the arts.
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