Oral history interview with Sidney Saperstein [electronic resource], 1966

Biographical Note

Government executive.

Scope and Contents

Columbia University, 1939; Federal Security Agency, 1941; drafting health insurance legislation; Murray-Wagner-Dingell bill; Social Security; Ways and Means Committee; relations between politicians; American Hospital Association and American Medical Association positions on health legislation, 1960s; Medicare; impressions of Wilbur Mills, Irwin Wolkstein, Wilbur Cohen, and others.

Subjects

• American Hospital Association.
• American Medical Association.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories.
• Saperstein, Sidney A. (Sidney Alfred), 1916-2007--Interviews.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• Social security--United States.
• United States. Congress.