Medicare and Medicaid: The 1965 and 1967 Social Security Amendments

This monograph is devoted to an analysis of Medicare and Medicaid provisions together with a brief description of the conditions and events that led to their enactment into law. . . . Chapter 1 is devoted to the provisions of Medicare and attempts to appraise their probable effect. The conditions that gave rise to the law are reviewed in Chapter 2, and a brief chronicle of the legislation is given in Chapter 3. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with Medicaid, its provision, and its effect on state medical care plans.— from the introduction—