Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Never again are we going to have a little old lady, sick as a dog, turned away from a hospital because she has no money.
Such an occurrence was all too common before LBJ’s Presidency.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Statement to his Staff Assistant, Jack Valenti, 1921-2007
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He, like so many Americans were shocked at the statistics on the relationship between earnings and infant mortality which does not exist in other industrial democracies.
Before Obamacare was passed, insurance companies could unilaterally decide who gets health insurance and who does not. Even after they allowed a person to have health insurance, they could then cancel it in many cases after someone got sick. So they determined who could or could not get health insurance,
Alinsky was one of the first of the modern politicians who realized the growing control over peoples’ lives that the health care was assuming. Getting decent health care at an affordable price was getting more and more difficult for the working class unless provided by an employer, and the poor were already at the mercy of whatever system there was in the area as they could go nowhere else.
There were many countries whose laws proclaimed that health care was a right but could not deliver the health care to many of its citizens. However, every developed country except the United States considered health care a right and delivered health care to its people. The large majority of U. S. citizens received good health care but not as a right.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
