 Medicare and Medicaid were, I guess from Harry Truman, Roosevelt didn't put health care in the Social Security bill because he thought it could never pass. Truman tried to do it and was just clobbered by the American Medical Association. Johnson worked on it, worked on it. The bill we started with was not the bill, was not the ideal bill. The first thing we had to do, and he kept saying, we have to get half the Republicans. To do this, we have to get half the Republicans. For two reasons. One, we needed their votes. But two, he said, if we don't get half the Republicans, they'll kill us in the appropriations committees. The Republican governors won't want to run Medicaid, which was the way Medicaid was going to be run. And so we gave. We gave doctors their usual customer and ordinary fees. We gave the hospitals cost plus reimbursement. We gave a lot of things, but we did get the bill passed. And I might say, if you'll let me, I'll just think the sidelines here. The doctors, even after it passed, the American Medical Association still indicated they were not, they did not think doctors should take part in Medicare. So the president invites the AMA to the White House in the cabinet room, puts the president of the AMA to his right and other members there. And before they can say anything, he says, I have this terrible war in Vietnam. I have an awful problem. I have the doctors in the military, but I need doctors to help take care of the civilian population. I want you to start a program to help take care of the civilian population. Maybe send doctors over for three months or six months on rotation. Your president and your country really need you. Will you do it? And the AMA said, of course, Mr. President, we will do it. We will do it. Calling the press, Johnson says, right away. Press comes in. LBJ announces the program. And the first question from the reporters is, will the AMA support Medicare? Will the doctors support Medicare? And the president looks surprised at the question, puts his hand over the arm of the diet of the AMA, and he says, these men are willing to put their lives on the line for this country. Medicare is the law of the land. Of course they'll support it. Doctor, the doctor said, yes, Mr. President, we're with you.