If we are to launch a new era for medicine-an era even more dramatic than the last a decades--we must begin by setting new goals:--To increase the life expectancy of our citizens;--To achieve a healthier environment;--To decrease the infant mortality rate in the United States;--To improve our understanding and care of the mentally ill;--To eliminate such diseases as tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough.
Message to the White House Conference on Health.
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This is a victory for every American because the only true path to progress for a free people is the one we will take when this legislation is made the law of the land.
We have a big job to do in the months ahead and with your help, we are going to do it.
Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.
I call upon the Congress now to complete its work of hope for millions of Americans who now look to it for action.
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