Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Don't Back Down In The Fight For Medicare For All
that would be a political loser. And because of that withering assault, the idea stalled in Congress for years — until voters made their voices heard.
In 1960, America elected John F. Kennedy after he campaigned in support of Truman’s idea. That election prompted a health care bill to finally begin being debated in Congress, and Kennedy at the timeOf course, the legislation was initially blocked by Republicans and conservative Democrats, who argued that if the proposal passed, it would be nothing short of the end of the republic.
“It took a big election, with voters changing the balance of power on Capitol Hill,” as Princeton historian Julian ZelizerMore than a half-century after that achievement, we are now at a similar moment in American history. This is a moment that requires us to say louder and more clearly than ever that health care is a human right, not a privilege.
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