Obama's health care dilemma evokes memories of 1974

Sep 4 2009

Kaiser Health News reports on similarities between past and present health reform efforts. "As soaring health care costs threatened to push medical care out of reach for many families, the president offered an ambitious new plan to curb the growth in spending and extend health coverage to every American. But he faced fierce opposition from Capitol Hill. Sound like the current political wrangling? Well, that was 1974 and the president was Richard M. Nixon" (Weaver, 9/3).