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Edward M. Kennedy by Adam Clymer6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() With support from organized labor and senior citizens, Kennedy holds hearings around the country and releases his report, “The Health Care Crisis in America,” which aims to garner support for his national insurance plan. The “Health Security Act” calls for a universal single-payer plan financed through payroll taxes. –1971: Kennedy offers his national health-insurance plan. A modified version of the bill is enacted Dec. 5, Kennedy co-sponsors a bill calling for a significant increase in funding for cancer research providing a total of $1.2 billion over three years to the National Cancer Institute, more than what was proposed by the Nixon administration. –1971: Kennedy becomes chairman of the Senate Health subcommittee and begins his long campaign for national health insurance. –1966: After a trip to the Columbia Point Health Center in Boston, which provided health care to low-income residents, the first-term senator introduces and helps pass legislation that adds $51 million to the Economic Opportunity Act for a national system of community health centers. ![]() ![]() Recalling Kennedy: Health Care Players Reflect on His Career.A Conversation with Kennedy Biographer Adam Clymer. ![]()
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