On This Day: The Medicare Bill 

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965 which created the Medicare program of health care benefits for those over the age of 65.

LBJ signed the Act at the Truman Library in Independence, MO. Former President Harry S. Truman had long worked towards the goals of the Act, and he participated in the ceremony. 

The Trumans were of modest means, and Harry Truman described the event as a “profound personal experience for me.”  Harry and Bess received Medicare registration card numbers 1 and 2 in January, 1966.


-More on the Medicare Bill from the Presidential Timeline

Source: presidentialtimeline.org

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