Medicare and Medicaid grew into great programs. They didn't start that way.
https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/History/index.html
https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/History/Downloads/Medicare-and-Medicaid-Milestones-1937-2015.pdf (9 page .pdf)
They together weren't comprehensive to the population as a whole. We're much, much closer to universal insurance under Obamacare than we were in 1965.
HTH.
Nixon still had a lot of supporters when he got on that chopper, also too. He was around 25% for nearly a year before he resigned.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/
It's still early.
Don't give up. We've got lots of great days ahead of us, if we fight for the future we want.
Cheers,
Scott.
https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/History/Downloads/Medicare-and-Medicaid-Milestones-1937-2015.pdf (9 page .pdf)
They together weren't comprehensive to the population as a whole. We're much, much closer to universal insurance under Obamacare than we were in 1965.
HTH.
Nixon still had a lot of supporters when he got on that chopper, also too. He was around 25% for nearly a year before he resigned.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/
It's still early.
Don't give up. We've got lots of great days ahead of us, if we fight for the future we want.
Cheers,
Scott.