Dr. Philip Lee Is Dead at 96; Engineered Introduction of Medicare

As a top health official for Lyndon Johnson and a fighter for social justice, he used government money as a cudgel to compel hospitals to desegregate in the ’60s.
Source: NYT - Category: American Health Authors: Tags: Lee, Philip Randolph Johnson, Lyndon Baines Deaths (Obituaries) Medicare Elderly Segregation and Desegregation Hospitals Doctors United States Politics and Government Health and Human Services Department University of California, San F Source Type: news