Harry S. Truman versus the Medical Lobby
ISBN: 9780826261342
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Missouri Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Politics; National health insurance United States; Health insurance for ages Title 18; Medicare; Health insurance;

"I have some bitter disappointments as President," reflected Harry Truman after leaving office, "but the one that has troubled me the most , in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat organized opposition to a national compulsory health-insurance program." Harry S. Truman versus the Medical Lobby is a study of one aspect of Harry Truman's domestic leadership and the political conflict it produced. In the book, author Monte Poen examines Truman's quest for national health insurance in the light of the ongoing debate on the subject in this century. It reveals why Truman was the first president to advocate government-financed health care and why he repeatedly took the idea to Congress, despite insurmountable political obstacles.

Monte M. Poen is Regents' Professor of American History at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He is the editor of several books, including Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed and Letters Home by Harry Truman (both by the University of Missouri Press).


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