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They were close, she says, until his last year when he “lost his mind to cirrhosis” and they fell apart.

In the words of the Yeats poem, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Surely some revelation is at hand."

While one point in the bill — federal funding for hospital construction — became law in 1946, Truman’s hopes for systemic health reform fell apart for good after a midterm elections loss.

His government fell apart late last year because the three parties in coalition could not agree to reforming debt restrictions.

He said they were responsible for keeping large numbers of people out of hospital, and without them, "everything we've worked for to try and get people out of hospitals into homes, completely falls apart".