Nine Lessons for Health Reform: Or Will We Finally Learn from the Past?

Our lessons are based on a study of every presidency from Franklin Roosevelt to Bush George W. Blumenthal D. Morone J. , Healer In Chief: Health and Politics in the Oval Office (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

Morone has written two books that illustrate this proposition. See Morone J. , Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) and Morone J. , The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, revised edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

Personal conversation, Wilson Center, October 3, 2007.

See Blumenthal Morone , supra note 1.

Belair F. , “Truman Asks Law to Force Insuring of Nation's Health,” New York Times, November 20, 1945, at 1.

Described in Blumenthal and Morone, supra note 1. See specifically chapter two.

See Blumenthal Morone , supra note 1. See specifically, chapter 11.

Johnson Lyndon B. to Kennedy Edward , January 9, 1965, 11:32 A.M., White House Tapes, C. 6718, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.

Johnson Lyndon B. to Humphrey Hubert March 6, 1965, 11:25 A.M., White House Tapes C.7024–7025, Johnson Lyndon B. Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.

See Marmor T. , The Politics of Medicare (New York: Aldine, 1971).

Interview with Gillette Michael L. , March 25, 1987, Oral History, Wilbur Mills, Interview 2, Tape 1 of 2, Johnson Lyndon B. Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.