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MEDICARE IS IN
Americans clamored for medical care at a time when most insurance companies did not offer coverage to people over sixty-five. In this drawing, Herblock heralds the arrival of Medicare, President Johnson’s new program to provide medical coverage for the elderly. A year earlier, on July 30, 1965, Johnson had signed Medicare into law, as part of a social insurance package of which Social Security had already been a component. Nineteen million people signed up for the program by July 1, 1966, when the full coverage went into effect.
[Doctor sitting in office and man hanging “Medicare is in” sign at door], 1966. Published in the Washington Post, June 28, 1966. |