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President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare Bill into law on July 30th, 1965By: White House Photograph Office,

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  The single greatest legislative accomplishment in the second half of the twentieth century came on July 30, 1965, the date President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments that created Medicare and Medicaid.
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  July 30, 1965 is a day that will go down as one of America's greatest days. After a truly bipartisan vote in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate, an amendment to the Social Security Act setting up our nations first public health insurance program passed and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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  Of all the pieces of legislation that came about to help dig America out of the Great Depression, none had a greater impact than the Social Security Act. This single piece of legislation and subsequent amendments expanding the eligible number of recipients dramatically rewrote the social compact between the federal government and the citizens it governs.
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  Laws that have broad bi-partisan support come few and far between, but the GI Bill that was passed in 1944 is one of those few bills that will bring together both the most ardently conservative and die hard liberal because it was a law designed to thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving our country.
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  It took the United States nearly two hundred years before it realized the importance of setting up a system for citizens who have become unable to work and need assistance to ensure they can still provide for themselves. Up until 1956 an individual who became disabled had little to no protections and had to rely on the help of others if they fell on hard times and couldn't work anymore.

Debunking Lies & Misinformation About Medicare & Medicaid

Started	Repeated Lie	About		Rank
2013 DEC	Medicare application is used to create a gun registry	Medicare, Gun Control & NRA	0
2013 NOV	Medicaid Doesn't Provide Quality Health Coverage	Medicaid	0
2013 NOV	Medicaid Expansion Will Bankrupt States	Medicaid	0
2013 OCT	Medicaid Expansion Will Force Doctors To Turn Away Patients	Medicaid	0
2013 SEP	Thirty Million Americans Are Uninsured Due to Obamacare	Medicaid	0
2013 SEP	Medicaid Expansion Will Slash America's Workforce	Medicaid	0
2013 SEP	The Federal Government Won't Pay Medicaid Funds to States	Medicaid & Republican Governors	0
2011 JUN	Obamacare creates rationing board	Medicare	0
2011 MAY	Medicaid Would Be Cheaper As a Block Grant	Medicaid	0
2011 APR	GOP voucher proposal will save Medicare	Medicare	0
2010	Obamacare cuts $700 billion from Medicare	Medicare	0
2009	Medicare is in Danger of Going Bankrupt	Medicare & Barack Obama	0

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• Perry claims that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid a Ponzi Scheme

  

  Rick Perry

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  "I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it’s Social Security, whether it’s Medicaid, whether it’s Medicare. You’ve got $115 trillion worth of unfunded liability in those three. They’re bankrupt. They’re a Ponzi scheme."

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