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Enacted by the 89th United States Congress Effective July 30 , 1965 Citations Public law 89 - 97 Statutes at Large 79 Stat. 286 Codification Acts amended Social Security Act Legislative history Introduced in the House as H.R. 6675 by Wilbur Mills ( D -- AR ) on March 29 , 1965 Committee consideration by House Ways and Means Passed the House on April 8 , 1965 ( 313 - 115 ) Passed the Senate on July 9 , 1965 ( 68 - 21 ) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 27 , 1965 ; agreed to by the House on July 27 , 1965 ( 307 - 116 ) and by the Senate on July 28 , 1965 ( 70 - 24 ) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30 , 1965 The Social Security Amendments of 1965 , Pub. L. 89 -- 97 , 79 Stat. 286 , enacted July 30 , 1965 , was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs : Medicare and Medicaid . The legislation initially provided federal health insurance for the elderly ( over 65 ) and for poor families . Contents ( hide ) 1 History 1.1 Previous administrations 1.2 Johnson administration 1.3 House of Representatives 1.4 Senate 1.5 Final passage 2 References History ( edit ) Many politicians were involved in drafting the final bill that was introduced to the United States Congress in March 1965 . On July 30 , 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill into law . The concept of national health insurance began in the early 20th century in the United States and then came to prominence during the Truman administration . Between 1958 and 1964 , controversy grew and a bill was drafted . The signing of the act , as part of Johnson 's Great Society , began an era with a greater emphasis on public health issues . Medicare and Medicaid became the United States ' first public health insurance programs . The legislation was vigorously opposed by the American Medical Association until it had been enacted , following which the AMA cooperated in its implementation . In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt included social insurance for sickness in the platform of his Progressive Party ( United States , 1912 ) . Around 1915 the group American Association for Labor Legislation attempted to introduce a medical insurance bill to some state legislatures . These attempts were not successful , and as a result controversy about national insurance came about . National groups supporting the idea of government health insurance included the AFL - CIO , the American Nurses Association , National Association of Social Workers , and the Socialist Party USA . The most prominent opponent of national medical insurance was the American Medical Association ( AMA ) ; others included the American Hospital Association , the US Chamber of Commerce , and the Life Insurance Association of People . Previous administrations ( edit ) In 1935 , when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act , medical benefits were left out of the bill . The committee that Roosevelt appointed to study issues related to Social Security wanted to include health insurance in the bill . However , the committee was concerned that amending the bill to include health insurance would kill the entire bill . Harry Truman took on the idea of national medical care and tried to integrate it into his Fair Deal program . Truman 's attempts were also unsuccessful , though during his presidency the fight for national medical care became specific to the aged population . Once the targeted age was decided , a lengthy debate began over presenting a coherent medical care bill to Congress . The Conservative coalition dominated the House Ways and Means Committee , which complicated attempts to pass social health programs . Wilbur Mills ( D - AR ) , chair of the committee , later played a role in creating the health care program that was integrated into the Social Security Act . In 1960 , the Kerr - Mills Act created the Medical Assistance for the Aged ( MAA ) program which gave states the power to decide which patients needed financial assistance . The federal government would provide matching funds to the states for the program . Some states did not participate or abide by the Act . Another preliminary bill , the King - Anderson Bill , was introduced in 1962 . Under it , some hospital and nursing home costs for patients 65 and older would have been covered . Although this bill was defeated in committee , the vote was narrow ( 12 -- 11 ) , signaling a shift in attitudes . Johnson administration ( edit ) With the election of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 , Democrats controlled both the Presidency and the Congress , claiming a 2 : 1 ratio to Republicans in the House and 32 more seats in the Senate . The Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee shifted away from Southern Democrats , making the committee more sympathetic towards health insurance reform . Those who had previously worked on the King - Anderson Bill drafted a new bill providing coverage of the aged , limited hospitalization and nursing home insurance benefits , and Social Security financing . Wilbur Cohen , Assistant Secretary for Legislation of the Department of Health , Education and Welfare ( and later Secretary ) , pushed the Medicare bill . Cohen convinced Johnson to give the bill high priority , and Johnson declared its importance to his Great Society program . The bill was introduced as companion bills , H.R. 1 and S. 1 , given the numbers as the first bill introduced in each House of the new Congress . House of Representatives ( edit ) The groups previously opposed to the legislation switched their focus from opposing the bill to creating new versions of it . As a result , three forms of the bill emerged : John Byrnes ' , the American Medical Association 's , and the administration 's bill ( known as Medicare ) . Byrnes was a Republican committee member who proposed that doctors ' services and drugs be financed ; participation in coverage would be voluntary for the aged . If an elderly patient did need the help , his or her financing would be `` scaled to the amounts of the participant 's Social Security cash benefits '' and the financing would come from the government 's revenues . The AMA proposed Eldercare , which provided government financing for physician 's services , surgical charges , drugs , nursing home costs , x-ray and lab services . When brought back to the Ways and Means committee , three bills were presented : Byrnes , ' Eldercare , and Medicare . When deliberations began in 1965 , both AMA members and their suggestions were rejected . Wilbur Mills , the chair of the Ways and Means committee , suggested combining Byrnes ' ideas and Medicare . His committee took on the task of drafting H.R. 6675 , the bill that ultimately became law . In combining the two bills , John Byrnes 's suggestion , which included lower taxes , had to be altered as higher taxes were necessary for the program 's predicted costs . The Ways and Means Committee reported favorably on the new bill to the full House of Representatives on March 29 after a straight party committee vote of 17 to 8 . During debate on the House floor , Republicans offered a substitute bill that would have made participation fully voluntary . It was narrowly defeated 236 to 191 , with 128 of 138 Republicans in favor of the substitute . H.R. 6675 was passed in the House on April 8 , 1965 by a vote of 313 to 115 . Senate ( edit ) The biggest threat to the passage of H.R. 6675 in the Senate came from liberal Democrats who were eager to expand coverage of the bill . As amended and passed in the Senate on July 19 by a vote of 68 to 2 , H.R. 6675 would have cost approximately $800 million more than the House - passed bill . Final passage ( edit ) The bill went to conference committee where Representative Mills worked to eliminate practically all of the Senate amendments . The bill went through more than five hundred amendments before being passed by majority vote in the House ( 307 -- 116 ) on July 27 and in the Senate on July 28 ( 70 -- 24 ) . The legislation made two amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935 . Title XVIII , which became known as Medicare , includes Part A , which provides hospital insurance for the aged , and Part B , which provides supplementary medical insurance . Title XIX , which became known as Medicaid , provides for the states to finance health care for individuals who were at or close to the public assistance level with federal matching funds . On July 30 , 1965 , President Johnson signed the bill , making it Public Law 89 - 97 . The signing took place in Independence , Missouri and was attended by Harry S. Truman . Johnson credited Truman with `` planting the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful '' . Implementation of the amendments required extensive data processing and the re-configuration of hospital policies nationwide . References ( edit ) Jump up ^ LaTour , K. ( 2013 ) . Health Information Management : Concepts , Principles , and Practice ( 4th ed ) . AHIMA Press . Retrieved from `` Archived copy '' . Archived from the original on 2014 - 03 - 10 . Retrieved 2013 - 09 - 13 . Jump up ^ Marmor , T.R. ( 2000 ) . The Politics of Medicare : Second Edition ( Social Institutions and Social Change ) . Jump up ^ `` companion bill or measure glossary term '' . www.senate.gov . Retrieved 2016 - 04 - 06 . ^ Jump up to : `` Social Security Act Amendments The Legislation '' . acsc.lib.udel.edu . Retrieved 2016 - 04 - 06 . Jump up ^ `` Social Security History '' . www.ssa.gov . Jump up ^ `` Social Security Act Amendments ( 1965 ) '' . 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( August 2008 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Social Security Amendments of 1965 Other short titles Health Insurance for the Aged Act Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance Amendments of 1965 Long title An Act to provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social Security Act with a supplementary health benefits program and an expanded program of medical assistance , to increase benefits under the Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance System , to improve the Federal - State public assistance programs , and for other purposes . Enacted by the 89th United States Congress Effective July 30 , 1965 Citations Public law 89 - 97 Statutes at Large 79 Stat. 286 Codification Acts amended Social Security Act Legislative history Introduced in the House as H.R. 6675 by Wilbur Mills ( D -- AR ) on March 29 , 1965 Committee consideration by House Ways and Means Passed the House on April 8 , 1965 ( 313 - 115 ) Passed the Senate on July 9 , 1965 ( 68 - 21 ) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 27 , 1965 ; agreed to by the House on July 27 , 1965 ( 307 - 116 ) and by the Senate on July 28 , 1965 ( 70 - 24 ) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30 , 1965 Other short titles Health Insurance for the Aged Act Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance Amendments of 1965 Health Insurance for the Aged Act Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance Amendments of 1965 Health Insurance for the Aged Act Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance Amendments of 1965 Long title An Act to provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social Security Act with a supplementary health benefits program and an expanded program of medical assistance , to increase benefits under the Old - Age , Survivors , and Disability Insurance System , to improve the Federal - State public assistance programs , and for other purposes . Enacted by the 89th United States Congress Effective July 30 , 1965 Citations Public law 89 - 97 Statutes at Large 79 Stat. 286 Codification Acts amended Social Security Act Legislative history Introduced in the House as H.R. 6675 by Wilbur Mills ( D -- AR ) on March 29 , 1965 Committee consideration by House Ways and Means Passed the House on April 8 , 1965 ( 313 - 115 ) Passed the Senate on July 9 , 1965 ( 68 - 21 ) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 27 , 1965 ; agreed to by the House on July 27 , 1965 ( 307 - 116 ) and by the Senate on July 28 , 1965 ( 70 - 24 ) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30 , 1965 Introduced in the House as H.R. 6675 by Wilbur Mills ( D -- AR ) on March 29 , 1965 Committee consideration by House Ways and Means Passed the House on April 8 , 1965 ( 313 - 115 ) Passed the Senate on July 9 , 1965 ( 68 - 21 ) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 27 , 1965 ; agreed to by the House on July 27 , 1965 ( 307 - 116 ) and by the Senate on July 28 , 1965 ( 70 - 24 ) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30 , 1965 Introduced in the House as H.R. 6675 by Wilbur Mills ( D -- AR ) on March 29 , 1965 Committee consideration by House Ways and Means Passed the House on April 8 , 1965 ( 313 - 115 ) Passed the Senate on July 9 , 1965 ( 68 - 21 ) Reported by the joint conference committee on July 27 , 1965 ; agreed to by the House on July 27 , 1965 ( 307 - 116 ) and by the Senate on July 28 , 1965 ( 70 - 24 ) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30 , 1965 The Social Security Amendments of 1965 , Pub. L. 89 -- 97 , 79 Stat. 286 , enacted July 30 , 1965 , was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs : Medicare and Medicaid . The legislation initially provided federal health insurance for the elderly ( over 65 ) and for poor families . Many politicians were involved in drafting the final bill that was introduced to the United States Congress in March 1965 . On July 30 , 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill into law . The concept of national health insurance began in the early 20th century in the United States and then came to prominence during the Truman administration . Between 1958 and 1964 , controversy grew and a bill was drafted . The signing of the act , as part of Johnson 's Great Society , began an era with a greater emphasis on public health issues . Medicare and Medicaid became the United States ' first public health insurance programs . The legislation was vigorously opposed by the American Medical Association until it had been enacted , following which the AMA cooperated in its implementation . In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt included social insurance for sickness in the platform of his Progressive Party ( United States , 1912 ) . Around 1915 the group American Association for Labor Legislation attempted to introduce a medical insurance bill to some state legislatures . These attempts were not successful , and as a result controversy about national insurance came about . National groups supporting the idea of government health insurance included the AFL - CIO , the American Nurses Association , National Association of Social Workers , and the Socialist Party USA . The most prominent opponent of national medical insurance was the American Medical Association ( AMA ) ; others included the American Hospital Association , the US Chamber of Commerce , and the Life Insurance Association of People . In 1935 , when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act , medical benefits were left out of the bill . The committee that Roosevelt appointed to study issues related to Social Security wanted to include health insurance in the bill . However , the committee was concerned that amending the bill to include health insurance would kill the entire bill . Harry Truman took on the idea of national medical care and tried to integrate it into his Fair Deal program . Truman 's attempts were also unsuccessful , though during his presidency the fight for national medical care became specific to the aged population . Once the targeted age was decided , a lengthy debate began over presenting a coherent medical care bill to Congress . The Conservative coalition dominated the House Ways and Means Committee , which complicated attempts to pass social health programs . Wilbur Mills ( D - AR ) , chair of the committee , later played a role in creating the health care program that was integrated into the Social Security Act . In 1960 , the Kerr - Mills Act created the Medical Assistance for the Aged ( MAA ) program which gave states the power to decide which patients needed financial assistance . The federal government would provide matching funds to the states for the program . Some states did not participate or abide by the Act . Another preliminary bill , the King - Anderson Bill , was introduced in 1962 . Under it , some hospital and nursing home costs for patients 65 and older would have been covered . Although this bill was defeated in committee , the vote was narrow ( 12 -- 11 ) , signaling a shift in attitudes . With the election of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 , Democrats controlled both the Presidency and the Congress , claiming a 2 : 1 ratio to Republicans in the House and 32 more seats in the Senate . The Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee shifted away from Southern Democrats , making the committee more sympathetic towards health insurance reform . Those who had previously worked on the King - Anderson Bill drafted a new bill providing coverage of the aged , limited hospitalization and nursing home insurance benefits , and Social Security financing . Wilbur Cohen , Assistant Secretary for Legislation of the Department of Health , Education and Welfare ( and later Secretary ) , pushed the Medicare bill . Cohen convinced Johnson to give the bill high priority , and Johnson declared its importance to his Great Society program . The bill was introduced as companion bills , H.R. 1 and S. 1 , given the numbers as the first bill introduced in each House of the new Congress . The groups previously opposed to the legislation switched their focus from opposing the bill to creating new versions of it . As a result , three forms of the bill emerged : John Byrnes ' , the American Medical Association 's , and the administration 's bill ( known as Medicare ) . Byrnes was a Republican committee member who proposed that doctors ' services and drugs be financed ; participation in coverage would be voluntary for the aged . If an elderly patient did need the help , his or her financing would be `` scaled to the amounts of the participant 's Social Security cash benefits '' and the financing would come from the government 's revenues . The AMA proposed Eldercare , which provided government financing for physician 's services , surgical charges , drugs , nursing home costs , x-ray and lab services . When brought back to the Ways and Means committee , three bills were presented : Byrnes , ' Eldercare , and Medicare . When deliberations began in 1965 , both AMA members and their suggestions were rejected . Wilbur Mills , the chair of the Ways and Means committee , suggested combining Byrnes ' ideas and Medicare . His committee took on the task of drafting H.R. 6675 , the bill that ultimately became law . In combining the two bills , John Byrnes 's suggestion , which included lower taxes , had to be altered as higher taxes were necessary for the program 's predicted costs . The Ways and Means Committee reported favorably on the new bill to the full House of Representatives on March 29 after a straight party committee vote of 17 to 8 . During debate on the House floor , Republicans offered a substitute bill that would have made participation fully voluntary . It was narrowly defeated 236 to 191 , with 128 of 138 Republicans in favor of the substitute . H.R. 6675 was passed in the House on April 8 , 1965 by a vote of 313 to 115 . The biggest threat to the passage of H.R. 6675 in the Senate came from liberal Democrats who were eager to expand coverage of the bill . As amended and passed in the Senate on July 19 by a vote of 68 to 2 , H.R. 6675 would have cost approximately $800 million more than the House - passed bill . The bill went to conference committee where Representative Mills worked to eliminate practically all of the Senate amendments . The bill went through more than five hundred amendments before being passed by majority vote in the House ( 307 -- 116 ) on July 27 and in the Senate on July 28 ( 70 -- 24 ) . The legislation made two amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935 . Title XVIII , which became known as Medicare , includes Part A , which provides hospital insurance for the aged , and Part B , which provides supplementary medical insurance . Title XIX , which became known as Medicaid , provides for the states to finance health care for individuals who were at or close to the public assistance level with federal matching funds . On July 30 , 1965 , President Johnson signed the bill , making it Public Law 89 - 97 . The signing took place in Independence , Missouri and was attended by Harry S. Truman . Johnson credited Truman with `` planting the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful '' . Implementation of the amendments required extensive data processing and the re-configuration of hospital policies nationwide .
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