Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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Insurance coupled to employment began in the ‘40s as a competitive measure to attract workers, but the entrenchment of the systems supporting that began with the formation of the AMA and subsequent mindset of politics through the decades. Short answer: once the pieces existed, power was used to secure them.

Here’s one graphical timeline: https://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/history.htm