title: Impeding Earl Warren: California's health insurance plan that wasn't and what might have been.
abstract: It is widely believed that the turning point for U.S. health insurance came in 1949 when Congress failed to adopt President Harry Truman's proposal for a national system. The possibility that a system of state-level health plans might have emerged before Truman's plan has received little attention. Yet several attempts to enact such a plan were made in California by Governor Earl Warren in the mid-1940s. Had Warren succeeded, the California example might have been emulated by other states and the United States might have evolved a system similar to Canada's provincial programs.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel J B
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007354:Insurance, Major Medical / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States / Q000266:history*; D009518:New York; D011057:Politics; D018855:Single-Payer System / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States