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The Lessons of Success — Revisiting the Medicare Story

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  • David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.,
  • and James Morone, Ph.D.

After reviewing recently released Oval Office tapes, Blumenthal and Morone conclude that President Lyndon Johnson played a larger role in the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 than historians have reported. They believe the revised version of events suggests that successful enactment of major health care reform would require strong commitment and speedy action on the part of our next president.

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Funding and Disclosures

Supported by Investigator Awards Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Blumenthal reports serving as an unpaid advisor to the Obama campaign and receiving consulting fees from Cornell University, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and contract support from General Electric. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Author Affiliations

From the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.B.); and the Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI (J.M.).

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