pop quiz: name the year

[kenllama]

I ran across this while working on a reference question today. Name the date! Ted Kennedy's no long with us, but much of the rest of it looks like 2009. It's not.

The rising cost and unsatisfactory state of medical care has finally got just about everyone impatient for a change. During the past decade, medical fees in the U.S. rose twice as fast

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[suddenlynaked]

1972? Richard Nixon?

[kenllama]

You're good! 1971, actually, but I imagine it dragged on for a while... It always seems to.

Based on the piece I saw, the chief difference between then and now is that once upon a time the Democrats were pushing for the government to cover medical *care* whereas now they'd settle for gov't sponsored insurance.

[suddenlynaked]

yup. One benefits the users, the other benefits the companies that pay the bribes.

Nixon also supported a national guaranteed jobs program. The dems wanted it to be govt. run, Nixon wanted it to be privatised.

Now it seems as if the D's want ankle bracelets and the R's want debtor prisons.