President Kennedy and Medicare September 12, 2013 JAG History, Independent Press, JFK, MLK, RFK, Politics President Kennedy and Medicare The “socialized medicine” gambit was around much longer than most people realized, and it almost killed Medicare. Please enable JavaScriptplay-rounded-fill LinkEmbedCopy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Related President Kennedy