But that doesn't explain how so many Americans adore their Medicare but still express bitter hatred for government intervention in health care. Most historians of national health care programs point to the year 1883 and credit Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, with developing a policy wherein public monies and contributions from workers were pooled and used to provide health care and reimbursement for lost wages to workers who became ill or injured. By 1911, when Great Britain first implemented a program similar to Germany's, most major, developed European countries could boast health care policies that protected their citizens. No one, it seems, wants to recall Bill and Hillary Clinton's 1993 attempt to revolutionize and reform American health care. And House and Senate Democrats only made things worse by refusing to get behind "Hillarycare," confusing matters by introducing their own convoluted health care plans.

Source: CNN March 24, 2017 18:35 UTC