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May 26, 1966 quote, top officials of state hospitals so caa shuns in 20 states, were called in today for an emergency conference down the hall, from health secretary john gardner's office, although the meeting was closed, h e hamilton, president of the louisiana hospitals association, told reporters afterward with the greatest problem is. he said quote, it's the requirement that negroes and whites would be permitted to share the same hospital rooms. and i don't know what the hospitals will do. but i hear some of them don't see how they can comply with that. you know what? turns out they could ...

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...

Although the meeting was closed, h.e. hamilton, president of the louisiana hospitals association, told reporters what the greatest problem is. he said, quote, it's the requirement that negros and whites share the same hospital room. i don't know what hospitals will do, but i see some of them don't see how they could comply with that. you know what? turns out they could comply with that. that was late may 1966. by the next month, june 1966 "the new york times" was still estimating that 2,000 whites-only hospitals in the american south wouldn't be in compliance with the civil rights law, and so ...

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. now, that's not going to be a problem, right? everybody, that's not going to be a big deal, is it? nobody's going to 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, "the new york times" was reporting on its front page on an emergency meeting that had been convened by the johnson adm...

Quote, top official of state hospital associations in 20 states were called in today for an emergency conference down the hall from health secretary john gardner's office. although the meeting was closed h.e. hamilton president of the louisiana hospitals association told reporters what the greatest problem is. he said, quote, it's the requirement that negros and whites share the same hospital room. i don't know what hospitals will do, but i see some of them don't see how they could comply with that. you know what? turns out they could comply with that. that was late may 1966. by the next month...