James Morone: How to Pass Healthcare Reform
The country’s pioneering national healthcare plan – Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 proposal to insure the country – was first voted down in California in 1915. To the auditorium full of Southern Californians at MOCA, James Morone said, “You forged the politics of healthcare for almost a century.” Morone, a Brown University professor and co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office, visited Zócalo in an event sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation to explain why healthcare reform is so difficult to pass. As Democrats pushed …
