When "progressives" say they and others have been working for universal health insurance for decades , they aren't lying. Obviously, these committed statists wanted socialized medicine even when health insurance was much cheaper: when virtually no one could claim an affordability crisis. Crisis or not, the statists were looking to force health insurance on everyone way back in 1917. Here's a flashback to The Progressive, from Yale Professor Irving Fisher:
At present, the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without health insurance.This was the most prominent economist of his day saying this statist dribble. The very next year, Fisher was elected to be President of the American Economics Association. In 1922, Irving Fisher was elected to be the first President of the American Eugenics Society. After all, you can't have an effective, racist eugenics program unless the state gets involved in health care. Something to think about as current day progressives demand health care for all with the guiding hand of the state in charge.
Health insurance is like elementary education. To function properly, it must be universal, and to be universal, it must obligatory.
Certain interests which think they would be adversely affected by health insurance have made the specious plea that it is an un-American interference with liberty. According to the logic of those now shedding crocodile tears, we ought, in order to remain truly American and truly free, retain the precious liberties of our people to be illiterate, to suffer accidents without indemnification, as well as to be sick without indemnification.
It is by the compelling hand of the law that society secures liberation from the evils of crime, vice, ignorance, accidents, unemployment, invalidity, and disease.
