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sc94597 on 22 August 2020
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
sc94597 said:

To expand on my previous reply, Biden doesn't support universal healthcare (no his anemic public option which lobbyists are trying to get rid of doesn't cover everyone), meanwhile Gerald Ford (a Republican) supported a national health insurance bill. 

https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Gerald_Ford_Health_Care.htm

"In his first address to Congress after succeeding Nixon, President Gerald Ford urged lawmakers to approve a national health insurance bill, but President Ford's short tenure was dominated by high inflation and other economic woes."

At the time, the Republican Party was mostly on the left of the Democratic party. Really shows how much the party shifted to the right since Reagan...

In the 1960's and 70's on political-economic issues the Democratic Party definitely was to the left of the Republican Party. 

When Nixon and Ford were proposing a National Health Insurance plan that looked like the ACA (but more comprehensive) Democrats, like Ted Kennedy, were holding off for single-payer.