Health Security for All Americans
Speech
By: William Jefferson Clinton
Date: September 22, 1993
Source: Clinton, William Jefferson. "Health Security for All Americans." September 22, 1993. Available at <http://www.ibiblio.org/nhs/supporting/remarks.htm l> (accessed June 10, 2006). About the Author: William Jefferson Clinton (1946–) was the forty-second president of the United States. He held office from 1993 to 2001. Early in his first term as president, he proposed the Health Security Act, which failed. INTRODUCTION

In 1993, President Bill Clinton proposed a program of sweeping health-care reforms and ...

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