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First Part-B Medicare
Application Returned By A Member of the Public
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President Lyndon Johnson
(right) Secretary of HEW John Gardner (second from left) and SSA
Commissioner Bob Ball (left) received the first Medicare Part-B
application form from a member of the general public, Mr. Tony Palcaorolla,
of Baltimore, Maryland (next to President Johnson). Shortly after
enactment of the legislation, SSA sent a mass mailing of application
forms to all Social Security beneficiaries near or over age 65.
Mr. Palcaorolla's completed and returned form was the symbolic first
received from this mailing. September 1, 1965. SSA History Archives. |
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