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Special Report: 60 years of Medicare
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60 years ago today, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Act — also known as the Social Security Amendments of 1965 — into law at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
Years earlier, in 1945, it was President Harry S. Truman who first proposed a comprehensive national health insurance program to Congress. During the ceremony in 1965, President Johnson called Truman "the real daddy of Medicare," presenting the former President and the former first lady, Bess Truman, with the first and second Medicare…
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