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White House Plans All-Out Drive for Social Security Method to Finance Medical Care
January 15, 1962
James Reston wrote in his column in the New York Times on January 3rd that "above every other vote-getting issue of the coming Congressional session, medical care is the one that administration wants voted up or down on the floor of the House." He went on to say that while tariff legislation may be the big foreign policy issue of the coming session, "medical care is regarded at the While House as the main bread-and-butter issue in the 1962 election of the whole House and one third of the Senate." Therefore, even if the Administration's bill is defeated, the political leaders of the party want a vote on the bill, believing that it will at least give them an issue in the campaign. Conversely, the opponents of providing medical care for the aged through the Social Security System will endeavor to keep the bill in committee. The chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to which the bill was referred is Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, who, Mr. Reston says, has taken a position against the bill, and who "may have the power to keep it bottled up."
Source: The New Jersey Hospital Association Reporter, Vol. XVI, No. 2, January 15, 1962, pp. 2.
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