Nixoncare vs. Obamacare: Comparing the rhetoric and reality of 2 health plans

(University of Michigan Health System) Few people today would dare call President Richard Nixon a radical liberal. But 44 years ago, he proposed a health plan that went far beyond what today's Affordable Care Act includes. After the first plan failed, he did it again three years later. A new paper compares the reality -- and rhetoric -- of both Nixon's plans and the current law.