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Medicare began in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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http://www.aei.org/issue/10089

1965 LYNDON BAINS JOHNSON

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OK, my answer is sort of correct, he created the idea.

Medicare as we know it today came into existence in July of 1965 during the Johnson Administration. Franklin Roosevelt's administration was the first to address the subject of government assisted health care. During State of the Union speeches in 1943-1945, Roosevelt spoke about universal health care, and Americans being covered from "Cradle to Grave." Bills were introduced to Congress during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations; no bill ever got out of committee. Every Democratic administration from Roosevelt to Johnson lobbied and tried to introduce some sort of government assisted health coverage from 1935 until Medicare's passage in 1965. http://hnn.us/articles/1583.html

 

 

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Franklin Roosevelt.

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