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Danny Davis: “Just that it was the combination of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Medicare-Medicaid Act of 1965 that definitively…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2013
Just that it was the combination of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Medicare-Medicaid Act of 1965 that definitively integrated the American healthcare system.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Davis highlights the impact of civil rights legislation on healthcare integration.

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