Medicare debate in the 1960s sounded alot like today’s town halls
Posted on 27 August 2009
By Mark Miller
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The author of a new book on the creation of Medicare recalls that the debate was just as passionate as what’s being heard in town hall meetings all over the country. James Morone, co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office described the debate–and President Lyndon Johnson’s strategy to pass Medicare into law–in an interview with National Public Radio.
