Parran

During negotiations for New Deal legislation in the mid-1930s, a national health insurance program was under intense discussion, and Parran made a last-second push to add funding for public health departments.

Parran was so enthusiastic that he instructed his staff to treat Truman’s plan as official policy and made speeches in support.

Although there have been small wins since then, there have never been reform efforts as large as under Parran.

Serious attempts were made, mainly by Thomas Parran Jr., U.S.

Parran saw medicine and public health as “two facets of a unit problem” and pushed for their integration like Winslow recommended.