Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131205:20:45:00
We have robert field, a professor and practitioner of health care law and the author of a new book "mother of invention: how the government created free market." the book looks extraordinary interesting. why is it that so many presidents have risked so much to try to implement universal health care? >> well, it's a fascinating story how this has played out over 100 years. at first it was a call in the wild from teddy roosevelt. then franklin really wanted to pursue it, but it was so emotional. he couldn't get it passed. there were pushbacks. truman tried, there were push backs. finally lbj wit...