From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association
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Medicare Developments, 1966 Legislative Chronology Document Outline Deadline Extended Nursing Home Profits Drug Costs Medicaid Funding Loyalty Oath. Most of the provisions of the landmark 1965 medicare bill took effect during 1966. At year’s end some 19.5 million aged were covered by the basic medicare hospital plan and 17.5 million had enrolled in the...
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Medicare, 1965 Legislative Chronology Document Outline 1965 Request House Action Senate Action Conference Action Bill Signed Provisions of HR 6675 Features Congress in 1965 passed the bill which was not only the most important welfare legislation of the Johnson Administration, but was also generally considered the most important welfare measure since passage of the...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor and Sen. Al Franken joked about the Perry Mason television show during today’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings of Sotomayor as U.S. Supreme Court justice. As aptly summarized by the very thorough blog about the Perry Mason TV series, “The show is a courtroom drama. In the first half hour, a...
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Medical Bankruptcy – Fact Sheet David U. Himmelstein, M.D., Deborah Thorne, Ph.D., Elizabeth Warren, J.D., Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. • In May 2009, more than 5,000 families filed for bankruptcy every business day. For all of 2009, the total is expected to reach about 1.4 million. The average personal bankruptcy involves 2.71 debtors and...
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