What is the fair deal reform that did not happen? The "Fair Deal" was a set of proposals put forward by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s and early 1950s aimed at continuing the New Deal's social welfare programs and expanding them to include new areas such as education and health care. While some of Truman's proposals were successful, not all of them were implemented as he intended. One of the proposals that did not happen under the Fair Deal was the creation of national health insurance. Despite Truman's efforts to establish a system of universal health care, Congress rejected the proposal, and it was never enacted.