my comments were not to address blame or even stir up Dem/Rep nonsense. I
was merely addressing the issue that you were robbing Nixon of the credit he
deserves for HMOs and assigning credit to Kennedy who, for all intents and
purposes, was merely a willing player in achieving Nixon's agenda.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
Reply-To: slug-politics@nks.net
To: slug-politics@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG-POL] Another political spectrum test
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:19:17 -0400
Steven Johnson wrote:
> This is an interesting interpration on the historical precedence of HMOs.
> Although Kennedy was an integral part of the creation of the HMO Act of
> 1973, the genie was already out of the bottle. It was President Nixon
who
> heralded the introduction of HMOs.
> "In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon declared his desire for the HMO in a
> speech to Congress: "the Health Maintenance Organization concept is such
a
> central feature of my National Health Strategy." The administration had
> already authorized,without specific legislative authority, $26 million
for
> 110 HMO projects. That same year, the U.S. Senate passed a $5.2 billion
bill
> permitting the establishment of HMOs "to improve the nation's health-care
> delivery system by encouraging prepaid comprehensive health-care
programs."
Hey, I don't think the Republicans are blameless in the whole matter
either.
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