Harry Truman actually said...

National health insurance is the most effective single way to meet the Nation's health needs.

Our public health services--federal, state and local--provide our greatest and most successful defense against preventable diseases.

This goal can be reached only through a national medical insurance program, under which all people who are covered by an insurance fund are ...

Every American should have the right to adequate medical care and to adequate protection from the economic threat of sickness.