Oral history interview with Irwin Wolkstein, 1967.

Biographical Note

Government executive.

Scope and Contents

Assistant Chief, Coverage and Disability Branch, Social Security; early health insurance bills; development of legislation; background of Medicare; Subcommittee on the Aged; consultant to Senator Patrick McNamara; speech-writing; 1960 election; John F. Kennedy's stand on Medicare; relations with Health, Education, and Welfare, Ways and Means Committee, AFL-CIO, White House staff, Blue Cross, American Medical Association; Congressional hearings. Impressions of Wilbur Cohen, Wilbur Mills, Abraham Ribicoff, and others.

Subjects

• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Health insurance.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Presidents--United States--Election--1960.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• United States. Congress.
• United States. Social Security Administration.
• Wolkstein, Irwin--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976.