Jefferson Public Radio, The Jefferson Exchange, March 4, 2020
The term “Medicare for all” is getting a workout in the presidential campaign. People sometimes forget there was Medicare for none until 1965, and it took a big battle to get the program through Congress.
Note that 1965 was also the year of the Voting Rights Act, a companion to the Civil Rights Act of a year before. Medicare played a part in integrating American medicine, a story covered by the documentary film “The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.”
It will screen in Arcata on Saturday (March 7th), sponsored by Black Humboldt, Health Care For All-California, and Physicians for a National Health Program.
PNHP President-Elect Dr. Susan Rogers and Humboldt County physician Dr. Corinne Frugoni are the guests.
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