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  • Title: Medicare and Medicaid: the first successful effort to increase access to health care.
    Author: Goldfield N.
    Journal: Physician Exec; 1993; 19(4):6-11. PubMed ID: 10127417.
    Abstract:
    The passage of Lyndon Johnson's health care legacy, Medicare and Medicaid, in 1965 represents the last time that health reform legislation expanding access to care was successfully proposed and implemented in the United States. Access, of course, represents only half the pie in health reform, the other part being the organization of the health care system. There has never been any major legislation passed through both houses of Congress and signed by a President that changed the organization and delivery of health services. It seems certain that President Clinton will propose legislation dealing with both access to and organization of our health care system. Though it may not have seemed so at the time, President Johnson had it easy compared to the challenges confronting President Clinton.
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