Last week, President Obama signed into law the first comprehensive health care bill in this nation’s history. Despite what many on the right say, the new law is not a radical socialist take-over of health care.

More than 70 years ago, President Truman proposed a national health care system to Congress. The American Medical Association, who opposed the bill for fear it would lower doctor wages, hired Whitaker and Baxter, a public relations firm, to mount an opposition campaign to Truman’s health care bill. When asked about the strategy, Clem Whitaker, the firm’s senior partner, [...]