Significance of Public Law 89–749

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ON November 3, 1966, President Johnson signed Public Law 89–749 — the "Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966." The law sets forth as a national goal "the highest level of health attainable for every person." It is significant that this value, in one form or another, is increasingly articulated in society in general and in political circles in particular. This paper analyzes the means suggested by Public Law 89–749 for achieving this goal. Goals, particularly those of our Congress, are utopian in character, but programs in terms of functions and resources must be finite, concrete and . . .

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