During his State of the Nation Address, President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced the campaign “War on Poverty” as a part of his social reform agenda entitled, “The Great Society.” It was targeted to reduce poverty in USA. In 1964, over 35 million Americans were living below the poverty line. In addition, more than 40% of Americans over the age of 65 did not have health care and was pushed to poverty with medical expenses that came with their old age. On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed laws that would assist low income families and senior citizens, thus the Johnson Administration established the health programs, Medicare (health care for citizens over the age of 65) and Medicaid (health care for low income families). To this day, Medicare
