Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill

The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, abbreviated WMD, ^{[1] [2] [3]} was a failed proposal in the United States Congress to institute a system of national health insurance in the United States. ^[4] Part of President Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal program, the bill was supported by labor unions and opposed by the American Medical Association, who denounced the proposal as "socialized medicine". ^{[4] [5] [6]} Reintroduced annually between 1943 and 1949, the bill was an attempt at healthcare reform in the United States. ^[7]

History

Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, Senator James E. Murray of Montana, and Representative John D. Dingell Sr. of Michigan introduced the bill to Congress on November 19, 1945. ^[8]

A similar bill of the same name was introduced in 1943 but not enacted. The 1943 attempt was distinct. ^[9]

Reintroduced annually between 1943 and 1949, the bill never advanced beyond the committee hearing stage. ^{[7] [1] [5]}

Society and culture

Henry Kraus' book, In the City was a Garden, is about experiences of the resident's council of a World War II Garden Apartment (FHA) housing project for the war effort in San Pedro Ca. Chapter VI - Kaleidoscope of Change, gives an extended account of attempts to provide medical clinics in the projects and the California Medical Association response against what it called "government medicine."^{[ non-primary source needed ]}

See also

• Medicare (United States)

References

1. Smith, David G.; Moore, Judith D. (2017). "Legislating Medicaid". Medicaid Politics and Policy. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351295802-2. ISBN   978-1-351-29578-9 – via Google Books.
2. Dutton, Paul V. (2007). Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 108. ISBN   978-0-8014-6047-0 – via Google Books.
3. Gordon, Colin (2003). Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 18. ISBN   978-1-4008-2567-7 – via Google Books.
4. Langston, Thomas S., ed. (2010). "Fair Deal". Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, Volume Six: Postwar Consensus to Social Unrest, 1946 to 1975. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. p. 165. doi:10.4135/9781608712380.n596. ISBN   978-0-87289-320-7 – via Google Books.
5. Fogel, Joshua (2010). "Health Care". In Chapman, Roger (ed.). Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. p. 243. ISBN   978-0-7656-2250-1 – via Google Books.
6. Derickson, Alan (2005). Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 102, 109. ISBN   978-0-8018-8081-0 – via Internet Archive.
7. Carter, Larry E. (1998). Health Care Reform: Policy Innovations at the State Level in the United States . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. p. 31. doi:10.4324/9781315790558. ISBN   978-1-317-73285-3 – via Internet Archive.
8. Congressional Record—Senate (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. November 19, 1945. pp. 10789, 10795. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
9. Smith, Donald W. (November 1945). "The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (1945): Senate Bill 1050, H. R. 3293". The American Journal of Nursing. 45 (11): 933–936. doi:10.2307/3416964. ISSN   0002-936X.

Further reading

• Corning, Peter A. (1969). "The Third Round—1943-1950". The Evolution of Medicare: from Idea to Law. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics. pp. 53–70. LCCN   70-650153. Research Report No. 29.