Schaffner: Interns and residents ‘fibbing and shimmying’ to give care before Medicare, Medicaid

Posted by vuit_admin on Monday, August 3, 2015 in News .

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical School, clearly remembers the struggle for his patients to pay medical bills before President Johnson signed the amendment to the Social Security Act to establish Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.