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| Keywords: Letter from Harry S. Truman to Sam Roberts - NARA - 201513.tif Scope and content This is President Harry S Truman's letter in response to a letter from his friend Dr Sam Roberts in which Roberts reported on his recent visit to the United Kingdom described what he saw as the disastrous British experiment with socialism under Prime Minister Clement Attlee and urged the President not to support a British-style program of national health insurance in the United States In his reply Truman emphasizes that the British should be left to manage their own affairs With regard to his health care proposals he argues that he is concerned primarily with the welfare of middle-class Americans not the wealthy who can afford the best care or the poor whose needs can be met through charity Expressing his concerns about exorbitant medical charges and the effects of poor health care on young Americans Truman invites doctors to come up with a remedy to the situation themselves General notes 201513 Local identifier President 1945-1953 Truman Office of the Personal Secretary 1945 - 1953 Harry S Truman Library NLHST 500 West U S Highway 24 Independence MO 64050-1798 1949-09-08 Record group Collection HST-PSF President's Secretary's Files Truman Administration 1945 - 1960 Record group ARC 1205 Personal Files compiled 1945 - 1953 documenting the period 1800 - 1953 Series ARC 602209 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NLT-PSF-A-19490908 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Harry S Truman documents Healthcare in the United States | ||||