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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
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Jan 18, 1964
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