Healthcare reform has historically been an incremental process in the United States. What began nearly 100 years ago as a political slogan as part of President Teddy Roosevelt’s unsuccessful run for a third term in 1912 evolved into a program proposed to Congress by President Harry S. Truman in 1945. However, it was not until 1965 that Medicare was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson with former President Harry S. Truman becoming Medicare Member 0001 effective July 1, 1966 … Download the full article below.