"This year," said President Kennedy, "or certainly as inevitably as the tide comes in, next year, this bill is going to pass." Retorted American Medical Association President Leonard Larson: "This bill will be defeated. You may see the end of this in the 87th Congress." Thus, last week, the Administration and the A.M.A. squared off for a fight over the President's program to provide medical care for the aged under social security. In their claims and counterclaims, both sides seemed partly wrong. The King-Anderson bill, as the program is known, is unlikely...
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