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Universal Health Care Failure

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The United States is one of the only countries of the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that does not have universal health care. But throughout history, there were many failed attempts and many laws passed to give American citizens universal health care. For example, in 1920, the American Medical Association 's House of Delegates passed a resolution opposing the compulsory health insurance in the United States. Government-funded health insurance was also proposed by president Roosevelt 's Committee on Economic Security but was never included in the 1935 Social Security Act. But three years later, in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposed a health care reform to universal health care as
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