Goldfield N
3M/Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
Physician Exec. 1993 Mar-Apr;19(2):3-9.
This article describes the first serious effort on the part of an American president to enact national health insurance (NHI). President Truman considered his inability to enact NHI the single most important defeat during his presidency. While a variety of factors led to the demise of NHI, three are most notable. The dynamic interplay of these factors, integrated with references to the current accelerating debate over national health reform, will serve as the focus for this seventh article in a series on historical efforts to enact national health reform in the United States.
本文描述了美国总统首次为颁布国民健康保险（NHI）所做出的认真努力。杜鲁门总统认为自己未能颁布国民健康保险是其总统任期内最重要的一次失败。虽然导致国民健康保险夭折的因素多种多样，但其中三个最为显著。这些因素的动态相互作用，结合当前关于国家医疗改革日益激烈的辩论，将成为关于美国国家医疗改革历史努力系列文章的第七篇的重点。
