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[49] [50] In June 1979, Carter proposed more limited health insurance reform—an employer mandate to provide catastrophic private health insurance plus coverage without cost sharing for pregnant women and infants, federalization of Medicaid with extension to the very poor without dependent minor children, and enhancement of Medicare by adding ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
And his health care proposals pushed his party toward the policy strategies that eventually produced the landmark Affordable Care Act in 2010. Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically ...
In June 1979, Carter proposed more limited health insurance reform—an employer mandate to provide private catastrophic health insurance. The plan would also extend Medicaid to the very poor without dependent minor children, and would add catastrophic coverage to Medicare. [98] Kennedy rejected the plan as insufficient. [99]
Although he served only one 4-year term, Carter had to deal with issues that continued to challenge many of his successors, including inflation, climate, energy production, health care and Middle ...
The easy shorthand about Jimmy Carter — lousy president, outstanding former president — is misleading. ... His stubbornness harmed efforts to achieve health care reform. He let the Shah of ...
During his presidential campaign, Carter embraced healthcare reform akin to the Ted Kennedy-sponsored bipartisan universal national health insurance. [212] Carter's proposals on healthcare while in office included an April 1977 mandatory health care cost proposal, [213] and a June 1979 proposal that provided private health insurance coverage. [214]
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter first volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in 1984. The Carter Work Project soon became an annual event led by the former first couple for more than 35 years.