As leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, a social democraticpolitical party, Lloyd was responsible for implementing the universal health care plan that Douglas had introduced. Lloyd's government had to cope with the doctors strike of July 1962, in which the province's physicians, backed by the resources of the American Medical Association, withdrew service in an attempt to defeat the Medicare initiative.
Lloyd and his government refused to back down on the concept of a universal public health care system, and persuaded the doctors to settle after 23 days. While Medicare was implemented, the political turmoil did lasting damage to the Lloyd government, contributing to its defeat at the hands of Ross Thatcher's Saskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1964 provincial election. Medicare was later extended to all provinces and territories in Canada as a result of the Saskatchewan experiment.
Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government.
Lloyd George wanted to punish Germany politically and economically for devastating Europe during the war, but did not want to utterly destroy the German economy and political system the way Clemenceau and many other people of France wanted to do.
In 1929 Lloyd George became Father of the House, the longest serving member of the Commons.
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