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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, roughly half of Americans 65 and older had no health insurance.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and former Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., participate in the House Democrats’ event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday, July 29. Pelosi is holding the gavel Dingell used when he presided over the vote to pass Medicare in 1965, and which she used during the Affordable Healthcare Act passage.
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