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National health insurance — Norman Thomas, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.64	1932	Norman Thomas	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over
0.61	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.54	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all
0.53	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.48	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.44	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age insurance under state laws
0.40	1936	Alf Landon	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Give crop insurance 'the fullest attention'
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.36	1932	Herbert Hoover	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Full relief for service-disabled veterans and dependents; review existing veterans' laws to remove inequalities and effect economies
0.36	1936	Alf Landon	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.35	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Child welfare and schooling	Federal aid to states for child protection and health; continued White House conferences on children, homes and illiteracy
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	An "economic declaration of rights" — the right to make a living and the right to safe savings
0.33	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Continue just treatment of war veterans and dependents
0.33	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury
0.30	1936	William Lemke	Minimum wages	A 'living annual wage' -- $1,800 for a family of five -- by federal law and a constitutional amendment if necessary
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Veterans' bonus and benefits	Oppose cash prepayment of the veterans' bonus, especially by fiat money
0.30	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Guard the worker's right to organize and bargain collectively