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The New Dealers, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's long tenure as President, had hopes of passing health insurance legislation as part of their overall social welfare legislative package. At first F.D.R. had intended to include federally funded medical care as part of his 1935 Social Security bill; however, pressure from the AMA forced him to drop this insurance plan from this proposed legislation