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US Presidents and Healthcare
1Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Supportive about National Health Care
• Signs Social Security act - grants for maternal and
child health
Franklin Roosevelt
1933–1945
2Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Established compulsory NHI
• Right to adequate medical care
• Focused on public health services
• Focused on maternal and child health care
Henry. S. Truman
1945–1953
3Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Proposes a federal reinsurance fund for private
insurers
• Revenue Act of 1954
• Tax exemption on employer contribution to health
plansDwight D. Eisenhower
1953–1961
4Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Healthcare for the aged
John F Kennedy
1961–1963
5Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Signs Medicare and Medicaid into law,
• Government-sponsored health coverage
• Neighbourhood health centres are established.
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963–1969
6Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Nixon Insurance Plan
Richard Nixon
1969–1974
7Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Law to allow group coverage for workers after
leaving job
• Hospitals to screen and stabilize all emergency
room patients.
Ronald Reagan
1981–1989
8Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Signs the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
George H. W. Bush
1989–1993
9Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Universal coverage effort — based on the
"managed competition" of private insurers in a
regulated market. It fails
• Signs the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
Bill Clinton
1993–2001
10Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Signs the Medicare Modernization Act,
• Adding prescription drugs to coverage
George W. Bush
2001–2009
11Monday, 29 December 14
Health Care contribution:
• Signs the Affordable Care Act
Barack Obama
2009–till date
12Monday, 29 December 14
we are reforming Healthcare Technology
13Monday, 29 December 14