While most people now associate the effort to ensure that all Americans have access to high quality, affordable medical care with Bill and Hillary Clinton’s failed attempt to reform the insurance industry in 1993, the concept was first proposed by Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party in 1912. Since then eight presidents: Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, have proposed or supported legislation designed to achieve the goal of bringing universal coverage to the United States.