In the early 1920’s it was recommended group medicine as well as controlled insurance thus giving birth to socialized medicine. Even back then the public had an understanding and mindful of the goals of receiving access to health insurance and healthcare for everyone with the governments monetary backing. Once they realized that individuals needed to give more towards the cost the support naturally thinned out. Of course the general public felt that reforming the healthcare system was a great idea they just did not anticipate how problematic the health policy would be. …show more content…
Senate of Pennsylvania’s Harris Wofford in a special election in 1991 based on his advocacy for health reform convinced many that the time was ripe for a renewed national health reform effort (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009).” For years the government has been putting in work trying to construct regulations that reform the American health care system. Up until the Affordable Care Act the first effective major reform to healthcare since Medicare other the majority of presidents had been very unsuccessful. President Obama has put into the very thing they were trying to provide and that is affordability and quality of