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1932 › Norman Thomas (Socialist) › Sickness and health insurance

National health insurance

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Solution

Health insurance alongside improved workmen's compensation and accident insurance.

Rationale

Part of the social-insurance floor the platform demanded.

Evidence B: the platform text is archived only as contemporary newspaper OCR (Milwaukee Leader, the Socialist daily) and Levinson's New Leader summary, not the official platform document.

Statements (1)

1932-05-24 · Milwaukee Leader report of the Socialist convention platform session (May 24) · conventionparty_platform ✓ verified

the convention 0 K'd without discus sion the planks declaring for old age pensions for men and women GO years old and older; for health insurance; improved systems of workmen's compensation and acci dent insurance and for the aboli tion of child labor.

Source: The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), May 24, 1932, (Home Edition) (page 2) (1932-05-24)

Follow-through

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Thomas received 2.2 percent of the vote; the Socialist program could not be tested in office. Health insurance was omitted from the Social Security Act and not enacted in any form in the 1930s.

Other positions on this issue

Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance

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