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And his health care proposals pushed his party toward the policy strategies that eventually produced the landmark Affordable Care Act in 2010. Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically ...
During his presidential campaign, Carter embraced healthcare reform akin to the Ted Kennedy-sponsored bipartisan universal national health insurance. [212] Carter's proposals on healthcare while in office included an April 1977 mandatory health care cost proposal, [213] and a June 1979 proposal that provided private health insurance coverage. [214]
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
With Democrats having lost a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate, but having already passed the Senate bill with 60 votes on December 24, the most viable option for the proponents of comprehensive reform was for the House to abandon its own health reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and pass the Senate's bill, The ...
Owing much to Mrs. Carter’s early commitment to mental health reform in Georgia, many of the recommendations from the Governor’s Commission to Improve Services to the Mentally and Emotionally ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died ...
In 2013, Carter praised the Affordable Care Act (the major health care reform law put forward by President Obama), but criticized its implementation as "questionable at best". [29] In 2017, Carter predicted that the U.S. would eventually adopt a single-payer healthcare system.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, died at age 100 in his hometown in Plains, Georgia. The former president left a long legacy working in public health.