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Single old person in america, was about having medical bills paid for by this new federal program. medicare was about to start a huge, huge news stream of federal government funding in the hospitals all over the country. but, at that time. all over the south. hospitals had scoffed at the civil rights act from 1964. hospitals have basically considered the selves immune from that kind of federal governmental. -ing and hospitals all over the south were absolutely positively rigidly segregated. there were literally thousands of whites only hospitals, across the south. and the johnson administratio...

That's the civil rights act that had been filibusters by segregationist for 54 straight days. but in the end, their efforts to stop it failed. they signed. it in the civil rights act of 1964 banned segregation. in public facilities, also in private facilities to which the public had access. and the segregationist at the time, screamed bloody murder. it's unconstitutional, you can't tell private entities what's to do. actually yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law of the land. then the following summer. july 1965, lbj, actually went out on the road this time f...

Before medicare would actually go into effect. so he basically gave the country, gave his administration a year to get it rolled out, right? we've got a year. ready, steady, go. funny thing, though -- more than halfway through that yearlong wind-up, more than halfway through that yearlong on-ramp that lbj had given himself to get implemented, nine months into that year that he had given the administration and the country to prepare for it, the johnson administration suddenly realized what that johnson signed into law in the summer f 1965, the medicare bill, and what johnson signed into law in ...

Out a polite but firm letter, to hospitals throughout the country, making clear to, them that if they wanted to participate in this new medicare program. if they wanted to qualify to get any money under this huge new program, ensuring every old person in america, they could not discriminate on the basis of race at their facilities. . that's not going to be a problem right? everybody that's not gonna be a big deal is? it nobody's gonna have any objection to that. no real issue. the letter went out in march 1966. the program was supposed to be implemented july 1st that same year. by may 1966, th...

Government should commit to providing health coverage to all elderly people in the country. truman could not get it done while he was president. but in 1965, lbj got it done. he signed the bill. creating medicare, in july 1965. and of course, the conservatives at the time screamed bloody murder, a high-profile conservative activist at the time named ronald reagan. denounced this new program. this medicare program as the end of america. as the end of freedom. it would mean a communist takeover of america, be very very afraid. lbj was not afraid. and it turns out. giving health insurance coverag...