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No, the Medicare program was started in 1965 under the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
It was Harry Truman who first proposed national health care in 1945. It took twenty years for supporters of the program to argue with opponents, who said it was a dangerous move toward Socialized Medicine and used other fear tactics to stop the progression of the health care plan for the "elderly", before the entitlement was finally enacted.
Editorial comment: Let's hope history does not continue to repeat itself in this scenario.
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