The President's News Conference
09/20/1950
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The heart of that program is national health insurance.
Every American should have the right to adequate medical care and to adequate protection from the economic threat of sickness.
This goal can be reached only through a national medical insurance program, under which all people who are covered by an insurance fund are ...
The unequal distribution of doctors and hospitals will plague this nation until means are found to finance modern medical care for all of ou...