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The Biologics Control Act makes federal government responsible for mongering manufacture
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Theodore Roosevelt holds a white hose conference on Dependent Children
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Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for "the protection of home life..."
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The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Hygiene act is passed
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One third of the Federal Budget is spent on promoting public health
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Supreme court upholds constitutionality of the Social Security Act
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The Public Health Service Act creates the Office of Surgeon General
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The National Mental Health Act now has grants for mental health training and research
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President Dwight, makes the FSA a cabin-level department
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President Dwight signs into law the Kerr-Mills Act
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The Migrant Health Act now authorizes funding to clinics for Agricultural workers
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The Clean Air Act authorizes the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to give grants to local air pollution agencies.
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The enactment of Medicare destroys a large existing market for retiree health insurance
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The Older Americans Act authorizes grants to the states to fund various social services for the elderly
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President Johnson gives a motivational speech to people who's lives are effected by medicare
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is now a sprawling organization
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he cost of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program increases rapidly
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The House Ways and Means Committee discovers that spending actually soared to $110 billion
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The Office of Child Development is created by the merging of the Children's Bureau and Head Start
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The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act creates grants for research, education, and treatment of illicit drug use
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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act authorizes grants to the states
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The Health Care Financing Administration takes over control of Medicare
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the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's budget is lost to embezzlement
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services
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President Ronald Reagan proposes turning Medicaid into a block grant program
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Congress adds a special hospitals subsidy to Medicaid to aid facilities that serve large numbers of uninsured patients
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Congress adds a new Medicare benefit for home care
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The Human Genome Project is established under the leadership of the National Institutes of Health
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Hillary Clinton drafts a plan for a vast and complex expansion of federal health care
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The Social Security Administration is split off from the Department of Health and Human Services
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Congress enacts major welfare reform
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The Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness is created to meet bioterrorism threats
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The Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness is created to meet bioterrorism threats
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The Bush administration proposes to allow states to receive Medicaid funding in the form of a block grant
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Congress passes the huge Medicare Part D drug benefit
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The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicaid is expected to double in cost
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The Department of Treasury reports that the present value of Medicare's unfunded obligations is $36 trillion over the next 75 years
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The Government Accountability Office estimates that Medicare pays about $17 billion of fraudulent and improper payments each year
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is created
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An authoritative federal study on Head Start finds that the program provides few if any lasting benefits to participating children
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President Barack Obama signs into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act