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494 Blue Cross for hospital charges

”Health Insurance,” Encarta.

495 preexisting conditions

Noah, ”A Short History of Health Care.”

496 twice took preliminary steps-in 1935

Kyle Noonan, New America Foundation, ”Health Reform through History: Part I: The New Deal,” May 26, 2009, /blog/new-health-dialogue/2009/health-reform-through-history-part-i-new-deal-11961.

497 feared the political opposition of the American Medical a.s.sociation

Ibid.

498 regarded as more pressing priorities

Paul Starr, ”In Sickness and in Health,” On the Media, August 21, 2009, /2009/aug/21/in-sickness-and-in-health/transcript/.

499 offered a quixotic third opportunity to proceed but Roosevelt

Noonan, ”Health Reform through History: Part I: The New Deal.”

500 During World War II, with wages (and prices) controlled

Noah, ”A Short History of Health Care.”

501 extensive health insurance as part of their negotiated contracts

”Health Insurance,” Encarta.

502 revive the idea for national health insurance, but the opposition in Congress