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Leonard Larson (1898-1974)
North Dakota Doctor Who Defeated President Kennedy’s Medicare Proposal
The first practicing pathologist in North Dakota was also one of the founders of Bismarck Junior College (now Bismarck State). However, Dr. Leonard Larson is best known for the controversial fight he had with President John F. Kennedy over the proposal of Medicare, a feud that landed his picture on the cover of the July 7, 1961, edition of Time magazine. As president of the American Medical Association (AMA), Dr. Larson had steered the organization into the mind-frame that the medical establishment needed to do more to assist the poor and aged with medical costs. However, he believed Kennedy’s plan was leading this country towards “socialized medicine,” a term that horrified many Americans in the Cold War era.
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