single old person in america, was about having medical bills paid for by this new federal program. medicare was about to start a huge, huge news stream of federal government funding in the hospitals all over the country. but, at that time. all over the south. hospitals had scoffed at the civil rights act from 1964. hospitals have basically considered the selves immune from that kind of federal governmental. -ing and hospitals all over the south were absolutely positively rigidly segregated. there were literally thousands of whites only hospitals, across the south. and the johnson administration came up with this revelation during that year that they had given themselves to rule out medicare. he signed in july 1965. it was due to go to an effect on july 1966, but in march 1966, just four months before medicare is due to start, it s due to go into practice. the johnson administration sent
old person in america was about to start having their medical bills paid for by this new federal program. medicare was about to start a huge, huge new stream of federal government funding into hospitals all over the country. but at that time all over the south, hospitals scoffed at the civil rights act of 1964. hospitals considered themselves immune from that kind of federal government meddling, and hospitals all over the south were absolutely, positively, rigidly segregated. there were literally thousands of whites-only hospitals across the south. and the johnson administration came to this revelation during this year they had given themselves to roll out medicare. he signed it in july 1965. due to go into effect in july 1966. but many march 1966, just four months before medicare is due to start, due to go into practice, the johnson administration sent out a polite but firm letter to hospitals throughout the country making clear to them that if they wanted to participate in