United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The effort to create a national healthcare system ultimately dies under heavy public pressure, the first major legislative defeat of Clintons administration. Sets up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, cornerstone of the administration
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announces that Clintons health plans are dead, at least for that session of Congress
Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
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