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The result was the passage in 1960 of the Kerr-Mills bill, which provided federal funding to the states to help meet the health costs of the rapidly increasing elderly portion of America�s population. Yet this very mild form of relief was all that the AMA would tolerate, and it wielded its political might in getting the defeat of the 1961 King-Anderson Bill, which would have paid hospitalization costs for the country's aged through the social security system.