| 1900 | R | R | R | | | |
| 1904 | R | R | R | | | |
| 1908 | R | R | R | We advocate the organization of all existing national public health agencies into a national bureau of public health with such power over sanitary conditions connected with factories, mines, tenements, child labor and other such subjects as are properly within the jurisdiction of the Federal government and do not interfere with the power of the States controlling public health agencies. | We commend the efforts designed to secure greater efficiency in National Public Health agencies and favor such legislation as will effect this purpose. | |
| 1912 | R | D | R | We reaffirm our previous declarations advocating the union and strengthening of the various governmental agencies relating to pure foods, quarantine, vital statistics and human health. | | TR Progressive Party endorces social insurance, including health insurance |
| 1916 | D | D | D | We favor a thorough reconsideration of the means and methods by which the Federal Government handles questions of public health to the end that human life may be conserved by the elimination of loathsome disease, the improvement of sanitation and the diffusion of a knowledge of disease prevention | | |
| 1920 | D | R | R | | The public health activities of the Federal government are scattered through numerous departments and bureaus, resulting in inefficiency, duplication and extravagance. We advocate a greater centralization of the Federal functions and in addition urge the better co-ordination of the work of the Federal, State and local health agencies. | |
| 1924 | R | R | R | | | |
| 1928 | R | R | R | The Democratic Party recognizes that not only the productive wealth of the nation but its contentment and happiness depends upon the health of its citizens. It, therefore, pledges itself to enlarge the existing Bureau of Public Health and to do all things possible to stamp out communicable and contagious diseases, and to ascertain preventive means and remedies for these diseases, such as cancer, infantile paralysis and others which heretofore have largely defied the skill of physicians. | | |
| 1932 | R | R | R | | | |
| 1936 | D | D | D | | | |
| 1940 | D | D | D | We are coordinating the health functions of the Federal Government. We pledge to expand these efforts, and to provide more hospitals and health centers and better health protection wherever the need exists, in rural and urban areas, all through the co-operative efforts of the Federal, state and local governments, the medical, dental, nursing and other scientific professions, and the voluntary agencies. | | |
| 1943 | D | D | D | | | Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill includes provision for universal comprehensive health insurance |
| 1944 | D | D | D | | The continuation of these and other programs relating to health, and the stimulation by Federal aid of State plans to make medical and hospital service available to those in need without disturbing doctor-patient relationships or socializing medicine. | Social Security Board call for national health insurance as party of Social Security |
| 1947 | D | R | R | | | Truman calls for National Health Program |
| 1948 | D | R | R | We favor the enactment of a national health program far expanded medical research, medical education, and hospitals and clinics. | strengthening of Federal-State programs designed to provide more adequate hospital facilities, too improve methods of treatment for the mentally ill, to advance maternal and child health and generally to foster a healthy America. | AMA launches campaign against national health insurance |
| 1952 | D | D | D | We also advocate a resolute attack on the heavy financial hazard of serious illness. We recognize that the costs of modern medical care have grown to be prohibitive for many millions of people. We commend President Truman for establishing the non-partisan Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation to seek an acceptable solution of this urgent problem. | We are opposed to Federal compulsory health insurance with its crushing cost, wasteful inefficiency, bureaucratic dead weight, and debased standards of medical care. | |
| 1956 | R | D | D | The strength of our Nation depends on the health of our people. The shortage of trained medical and health personnel and facilities has impaired American health standards and has increased the cost of hospital care beyond the financial capacities of most American families. | | Legislation introduced to provide health insurance for social security beneficiaries |
| 1960 | R | D | D | We shall provide medical care benefits for the aged as part of the time-tested Social Security insurance system. | Provide the beneficiaries with the option of purchasing private health insurance—a vital distinction between our approach and Democratic proposals in that it would encourage commercial carriers and voluntary insurance organizations to continue their efforts to develop sound coverage plans for the senior population. | |
| 1964 | D | D | D | | | LBJ advocates for Medicare in a special message to Congress |
| 1965 | D | D | D | | | Medicaid and Medicare signed into law |
