S ince it was rolled out in 1965, under then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Medicare has grown to be a vital health insurance ...

While often framed as a partisan issue, the truth is that Medicare’s privatization is a bipartisan effort spanning decades, ...

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not ... Along with Medicare, the Johnson Administration established the Medicaid ...

House Republicans advanced a budget proposal that would potentially cut US$880 billion from Medicaid over 10 years. President Donald Trump has backed that House budget despite repeatedly vowing on the ...

The 60-year-old Medicaid system, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, ensures that individuals have access ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union ... the elderly and the victims of prejudice. They include Medicare and the major civil rights measures, staples of today ...