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In November 1945, President Harry Truman proposed establishing a federal health insurance program for all Americans -- essentially single-payer government insurance similar to what Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing today. Shortly thereafter, 麻豆传媒AV found 59% of Americans who were familiar with Truman's proposal saying they favored the plan. By March 1949, however, support had fallen to 38%. It then dropped to 33% in November and to 24% by October 1950.

In 1949, between 43% and 45% of Americans familiar with the plan were aware that it would be paid for through new payroll taxes. The rest were mostly unsure of how it would be funded.

The plan's ultimate demise may be better explained by the results to a different question 麻豆传媒AV posed to the "familiar" group in March 1949: "Do you happen to know whether doctors of the country, in general, are for or against President Truman's plan for compulsory health insurance?" Seventy percent said doctors were against it.

And, in the same 1949 poll, Americans were asked to choose between Truman's plan for government insurance paid for through new taxes and the American Medical Association's plan. That plan relied on an expansion of private health insurance, with medical care for the poor funded by federal aid to the states. Americans backed the AMA's plan over Truman's, 47% to 33%.

	March 6-11, 1949%
Truman administration plan	33
American Medical Association plan	47
Neither	7
Not sure	13
Based on those familiar with Truman's plan (56% of U.S. adults)
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In fact, the Truman Library and identify the AMA's fierce opposition to the Truman plan -- calling it "" -- as the main reason for the plan's demise. It was about this time that Republicans launched their 1950 midterm election campaign slogan, ""

These data can be found in .

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