Tom Scully talked about the Medicare and Medicaid Acts of 1965. He discussed President Lyndon Johnson's vision of the bill and the present state of the program. This program was part of a week ...

On This Day: 1965 Medicare Bill On July 7, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the Social Security Amendments which included the two crucial programs of Medicare and Medicaid. President ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law Medicare, which provides low-cost hospitalization and medical insurance for the nation's elderly.