Supports cspan as a Public Service along these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. On our landmark legislation series we are going to look at the creation of medicare and medicaid. Two guests joining us, james morone from Brown University and Laurence Kotlifkoff of Boston University will join us. He is the author of the health care fix. Thank you for joining us, gentlemen. In looking at this legislation, there are a couple of things that happened before. It was before the 1960 bill we know it was in 1935 that fdrs Social Security act was passed creating ace creating a security net. With that as the backdrop, how does this lead up to us getting medicare and medicaid. Roosevelt had wanted at the end of world war ii, he looked for another cause and he lighted on National Security National Health insurance. He died before his plan had been written. That plan went to harry truman who embraced it like nothing else. It was the passion of his life. G else. It w