How doctors helped tank universal health care

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  NPR. Healthcare. Healthcare.

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  Adrian, pretty much everyone agrees it's not going well.

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  U.S. healthcare outcomes often rank near the bottom.

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  And of course, there have been a lot of attempts to fix this.

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  A lot of politicians proposing to overhaul the system.

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  We should emulate what goes on around the rest of the world and guarantee health care to all people.

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  And there have also been a lot of criticisms of those attempts.

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  Congressional Democrats embrace crazy Bernie socialist health care takeover.

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  That particular rhetoric, basically calling these health care plans socialism,

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  it really takes off at a particular historical moment back in the 1940s.

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  That's right.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  And we today includes... A friend of the show, Sally Helm.

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  Hello, Adrian.

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  I am very glad to be here.

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  Today on the show,

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  we speak with a doctor and economist who's researched this history about how doctors actually helped tank single-payer health care in the 1940s and the role communism played in the fight.

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  In the fall of 1944, California Governor Earl Warren comes down with a kidney infection.

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  He's hospitalized.

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