From FDR's call for a social insurance system that would extend "cradle to grave" to George W. Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan, successive presidents have tried, each in his own way, to improve the nation's health care system. Now it is Barack Obama's turn. This story set the stage for 2009's year-long debate on Health Policy.
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