October 17, 2008
Health Care: a Campaign Primer
"Of the four basic risks to the security of working people and their families — unemployment, old age, death, and sickness — we have provided some insurance protection against three," said President Harry Truman in a message to Congress in 1947. "Protection against the fourth — sickness — is the major missing element in our national social insurance program."
Six decades later, health care continues to bedevil American policy makers. There is
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