Source: Common Dreams
by Sulma Arias
“When Lyndon B. Johnson became president in 1963, he wanted the United States to become a ‘Great Society’ with voting rights for all and an end to discrimination and poverty. ‘With your courage and with your compassion and desire, we will build a Great Society,’ Johnson told Ohio University students when he kicked off the effort. ‘A society where no child will go unfed, and no youngster will go unschooled.’ Central to Johnson’s vision for a Great Society was healthcare. The two health programs he started, Medicare and Medicaid, do not offer the universal coverage many nations provide, but they did advance healthcare as a right and not just a privilege for the wealthy. Trump spent his four years as president trying to take health coverage away from 45 million people by destroying the Affordable Care Act.” (10/24/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-harris-healthcare