Title: Physicians Committee for Health Care for the Aged through Social Security Records
Inclusive Dates: 1962-1965

Creator:

• Physicians Committe for Health Care for the Aged through Social Security

Call Number: Mss 193

Quantity: 3.5 c.f. (10 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of a group which lobbied for Social Security financing of health insurance for the elderly, and which disbanded at the 1965 passage of Medicare. Included are correspondence, health insurance information, clippings, mailing lists, tax records, and Congressional testimony. Documented is the group's seeking of support from doctors and congressmen, and its work in educating and influencing the public.

Language: English

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The Physicians Committee was founded in Washington D.C. on March 27, 1962 by 29 doctors to lobby for health insurance for the elderly financed through the Social Security system. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn was chairman and Mrs. Genevieve Goldy and later Mrs. Vera Mayer were executive directors. The Committee's lobbying activities consisted of soliciting support from doctors and congressmen, distributing 45,000 pamphlets, testifying before congressional committees, and seeking newspaper, radio and television publicity. The Committee disbanded after the passage of Medicare in July 1965.

The Records include correspondence, copies of congressional testimony, newspaper clippings, lists of supporters, and tax records. The correspondence is with committee members, doctors, congressmen, laymen, and high school students. The Records also document publicity the Committee received and information on health insurance that the Committee accumulated. It is organized in five series: Correspondence, Lists, Information on Health Insurance, Publicity, and Finance.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Group Health Association of America, Inc., via Louis Segadelli, Associate Executive Director, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1969. Accession Number: M69-287

Processing Information

Processed by RMD and archives students, March 27, 1972.

	Series: Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	Dr. Esselstyn, Chairman
	Committee Members, 1962-1964
Box   1 Folder   2	A-D
Box   1 Folder   3	E-K
Box   1 Folder   4	L-M
Box   1 Folder   5	N-Z
Box   1 Folder   6	Committee Memorandums, 1962-1964
Box   1 Folder   7	Meeting of Committee, May 3-4, 1963
Box   1 Folder   8	General Correspondence, 1964-1965
Box   1 Folder   9	Committee Membership, 1963-1964
	Doctors, 1962-1963
Box   1 Folder   10	A
Box   1 Folder   11	B
Box   1 Folder   12	C
Box   2 Folder   1	D-E
Box   2 Folder   2	F
Box   2 Folder   3	G-H
Box   2 Folder   4	I-L
Box   2 Folder   5	M-Q
Box   2 Folder   6	R-S
Box   2 Folder   7	T-Z
Box   2 Folder   8	Copies of letters by doctors to the President of the United States, 1962
Box   2 Folder   9-10	House of Representatives, 1962-1963
	Senate
Box   2 Folder   11	1962-1963
Box   3 Folder   1	Undated
Box   3 Folder   2	Form Letters to Congress, 1962-1963
Box   3 Folder   3	Committee Witnesses before House Ways and Means, 1963-1964
Box   3 Folder   4	Representative Curtis, 1963
	Laymen, 1962-1964
Box   3 Folder   5	A-G
Box   3 Folder   6	H-M
Box   3 Folder   7	N-Z
	High School Debaters and Coaches, 1963-1964
Box   3 Folder   8	A-G
Box   4 Folder   1	H-M
Box   4 Folder   2	N-Z
Box   4 Folder   3	High School Debating Leagues and the University Extension, 1963
Box   4 Folder   4	Form Letters, 1962-1963
Box   4 Folder   5	Mauer & Fleisher, 1962
Box   4 Folder   6	Letters to Columnists and Editors
Box   4 Folder   7	Radio and Television, 1963
Box   4 Folder   8	AFL-CIO and Affiliates, 1962-1964
	Series: Lists	⇧
	Doctors
Box   4 Folder   9	1962
Box   4 Folder   10	1962-1964
Box   4	Donors and supporters, 1962
	Series: Information on Health Insurance	⇧
Box   5 Folder   1	Materials on various Health Insurance Legislation, 1962-1963
Box   5 Folder   2	Information on Health Insurance, 1963
Box   5 Folder   3	Materials on the Javits Health Insurance Act of 1964
Box   5 Folder   4	Opinion Polls of Doctors, 1961-1962
Box   5	Information Letter Index, 1946-1947 and the Health & Welfare Newsletter Index, , 1952-1960
	Series: Publicity	⇧
Box   5 Folder   5	Samples of Committee Literature
Box   5 Folder   6	Lists of Leaflets Distributed, 1962
Box   5 Folder   7	Press Releases, 1962
Box   6 Folder   1-2	Press Releases, 1962-1963
Box   6 Folder   3	Regional Press Releases, 1962
	Committee Publicity
Box   6 Folder   4-6	1962
Box   6 Folder   7	1963
Box   6 Folder   8	AMA Publicity, 1962-1964
Box   7 Folder   1	Committee Testimony before Congressional Committees, 1961-1964
Box   7 Folder   2	Representative Curtis's Attacks on the Committee, 1963
Box   7 Folder   3	Speakers Bureau, 1963
Box   7	Speakers Kit
Box   7 Folder   4	Petitions, 1962
	Series: Finance	⇧
Box   7 Folder   5	Finances, 1963-1964
Box   7 Folder   6	Taxes, 1962-1964
Box   8-10	Mailing List Card File