title: Will we make history?
abstract: From FDR's call for a social insurance system that would extend "from cradle to grave" to George W. Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan, successive American presidents have tried, each in his own way, to improve the nation's health care system. Now it's Barack Obama's turn, and his multifaceted proposal, backed by billions of dollars in federal funding and support from a broad spectrum of stakeholders, could make comprehensive health care reform a reality.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Larkin
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000458:organization & administration; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D011057:Politics; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States