 Fogarty introduced several bills which gained nationwide support, including PREVENTICARE aimed at providing multiphasic health screening tests for all Americans age 50 and over to help detect chronic diseases and legislation to amend the Social Security Act which would increase benefit payments by an average of 50% and provide other benefits, as well as extend and improve programs of child welfare services and bills to furnish improved health education by providing that qualified health educators be placed in schools to teach health education as an academic subject.Fogarty was married to Luise Rohland.He served in the House until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C. on January 10, 1967 shortly before he was to be sworn in for his fourteenth term.