"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

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People assume this complexity is an artifact of not having a national health insurance program.

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Obama's health care plan includes the creation of a national health insurance program for individuals who do not have employer-provided health care and who do not qualify for other existing federal programs.

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In 1945, months after Earl Warren proposed compulsory health insurance in California, Harry Truman proposed a national program.

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