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Letter from Wilbur Cohen to Leonidas H. Berry about effective administration of the new Medicare program
Wilbur Cohen, undersecretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare and a principle architect of Medicare, thanked Leonidas H. Berry for the National Medical Association’s support and mentioned that he had also met with medical civil rights leader Montague Cobb to discuss strategies for racial integration in the new Medicare program
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Topic:
Civil Rights, Hospital Discrimination, Medicare, National Medical Assn.Creator:
Wilbur J. CohenDate:
September 20, 1965