National Historical Park Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit Seattle, WA The Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park preserves the story of the stampede to the Yukon gold fields and Seattle's crucial role in this event. The headlines of a Seattle newspaper on July 17, 1897, Gold! Gold! Gold!
In 1972, Republicans Voted For A National Healthcare Plan For Kidney Patients. What Changed? Did you know in 1972, a government-run national health care program was established through Medicare to take care of Americans who had end-stage renal disease, even paying for transplants? And did you know Republicans supported it? I was astounded, reading Jennifer Nix's I Love My Socialist Kidney in Salon.
1 Medicare ESRD Program History. ï§ 2 1971 President Nixon proposed major amendments to the. Social Security Act and discussions took place on. allowing patients with ESRD to have access. ï§1971 House Ways and Means Committee held hearing. ï§1972 Senate Finance Committee retreat led to. discussions using ESRD patients as a way to look at.