1945

After WWII, 25% or more of medical students in France, Germany, and Britain were women; 80% in Soviet Union, but only 8% in U.S. (Bonner, 167). First cure of TB using streptomycin (Wainwright, 127). President Truman proposes the National Health Bill (a new Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill) to provide compulsory comprehensive national health insurance, to be financed by a 4% increase in the social security tax; it was killed by AMA; he tried again in 1949 (Stevens, 273-274; Burrow, 343-345).