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WASHINGTON NEWS King-Anderson.— The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled five days of hearings starting Jan 20 on the King-Anderson bill. President Johnson has called the King-Anderson bill one of his "must" legislative items for this session of Congress, but top priority has been given tax cuts and civil rights. In his State of the Union address to Congress, the Chief Executive said: "We must provide hospital insurance for our older citizens, financed by every worker and his employer under Social Security contributing no more than $1 a month during the employee's working career to protect him in his old age in a dignified manner, without cost to the Treasury, against the devastating burden of prolonged or repeated illness..." Commenting on the President's remarks, the American Medical Association declared: "President Johnson apparently has been grossly misinformed by his advisors on medicare legislation. Medicare would not be an insurance program of health http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

WASHINGTON NEWS

JAMA , Volume 187 (3) – Jan 18, 1964

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1964.03060160079038
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Abstract

King-Anderson.— The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled five days of hearings starting Jan 20 on the King-Anderson bill. President Johnson has called the King-Anderson bill one of his "must" legislative items for this session of Congress, but top priority has been given tax cuts and civil rights. In his State of the Union address to Congress, the Chief Executive said: "We must provide hospital insurance for our older citizens, financed by every worker and his employer under Social Security contributing no more than $1 a month during the employee's working career to protect him in his old age in a dignified manner, without cost to the Treasury, against the devastating burden of prolonged or repeated illness..." Commenting on the President's remarks, the American Medical Association declared: "President Johnson apparently has been grossly misinformed by his advisors on medicare legislation. Medicare would not be an insurance program of health

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 18, 1964

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