President Richard Nixon signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 into law on December 29, 1973, following Senate sponsorship by Edward Kennedy. The Act provided grants and loans to start or expand Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), removed certain state restrictions for federally …
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The American Medical Association launches Operation Coffee Cup in 1961, funding a sophisticated astroturf campaign to defeat Medicare by distributing a long-play record featuring a young Ronald Reagan outlining the dangers of “socialized medicine” to the Women’s Auxiliary of the …
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