History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2297 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Health Care Reform
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The idea
A task force led by Hillary Clinton produced the one thousand three hundred forty-two-page Health Security Act of nineteen ninety-three, seeking universal coverage.
In practice
Employers required to cover employees, no one refused for pre-existing conditions, and the poor paying nothing.
Where people slip
Opponents called it Hillarycare, an unwarranted expansion of federal power, and it failed; unit seventeen takes up the question again.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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