did nixon start medicare for dialysis patients
In 1972, Republicans Voted For A National Healthcare Plan For Kidney Patients. What Changed? Did you know in 1972, a government-run national health care program was established through Medicare to take care of Americans who had end-stage renal disease, even paying for transplants? And did you know Republicans supported it? I was astounded, reading Jennifer Nix's I Love My Socialist Kidney in Salon.
Republicans in the 1970s were on the side of healthcare for all Americans. In a message to Congress on Feb. 18, 1971, Nixon himself proposed the National Health Insurance Partnership Act.