Special Message to the Congress: Food for Freedom
02/09/1966
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That is what Medicare is all about.
I am convinced that we must reexamine on a broad scale our nation's use of health manpower.
You can now have self-respect and still provide for your medical bills and your medicine, your nursing care, and things of that kind.
I submit to Congress the International Health Act of 1966.