LPE Originals
Democratizing Administrative Governance: How the Civil Rights Movement Shaped Medicare’s Implementation
This post is part of our symposium on democratizing administrative law. You can find all the posts in the series here. In January 1966, the Johnson administration faced a regulatory battle between a risk-averse federal executive branch and the demands of a grassroots social movement. Starting on July 1, 1966, federal Medicare funds would begin…