Past Is Prologue

The success of advocates to weave around initial rejection foretold the subsequent advent of New Deal and Great Society safety nets. And the ongoing judicial review of national healthcare reform looks strikingly similar to events some hundred years ago. Here is history and precedent in insurance law mandating universal coverage via required universal payment. The first years of the 20th century witnessed a trumpeting of scientific and professional solutions to societal problems. Business turned toward management science, introducing stopwatches to create and refine production lines.