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Introduction -- Congress passes a law, the labor movement unites, and Walter George retires -- What happened to the disability program and how policy makers tried to respond -- Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, and Nelson Cruikshank curate Medicare -- The consequences of Medicare from accommodation to regulation -- The continuing consequences of Medicare: choice and prescription drugs -- The welfare reform debate from JFK to Reagan -- Clinton, Gingrich, and welfare reform in 1996.

Arriving -- Bureau manager -- Medicare -- Expanding Social Security -- Defender of the faith -- Savior

AbstractThis policy perspective discusses three important social welfare programs—Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families—and offers an explanation of how they have expanded over time.

This historical essay looks at the changing meaning of health insurance over time and explains how broad economic and political forces have created that meaning at any one time but that these forces interact with the contingencies of the moment to produce a particular outcome. That outcome in turn influences the subsequent development of health insurance.