Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill
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The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, abbreviated WMD,[1][2][3] was a failed proposal in the United States Congress to institute a system of national health insurance in the United States.[4] Part of President Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal program, the bill was supported by labor unions and opposed by the American Medical Association, who denounced the proposal as "socialized medicine".[4][5][6] Reintroduced annually between 1943 and 1949, the bill was an attempt at healthcare reform in the United States.[7]
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, Senator James E. Murray of Montana, and Representative John D. Dingell Sr. of Michigan introduced the bill to Congress on November 19, 1945.[8]
A similar bill of the same name was introduced in 1943 but not enacted. The 1943 attempt was distinct.[9]
Reintroduced annually between 1943 and 1949, the bill never advanced beyond the committee hearing stage.[7][1][5]
Society and culture
Henry Kraus' book, In the City was a Garden, is about experiences of the resident's council of a World War II Garden Apartment (FHA) housing project for the war effort in San Pedro Ca. Chapter VI - Kaleidoscope of Change, gives an extended account of attempts to provide medical clinics in the projects and the California Medical Association response against what it called "government medicine."[non-primary source needed]