08/21/1949
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"This goal can be reached only through a national medical insurance program, under which all people who are covered by an insurance fund are entitled to necessary medical, hospital and related services..."
"Our public health services--federal, state and local--provide our greatest and most successful defense against preventable diseases."
"A national health insurance program is a logical extension of the present social-security system which is so firmly entrenched in our American democracy."
"Healthy citizens constitute our greatest national resource."