Harry and Bess Truman's medicare cards

WAX2003090801 - WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Harry S and Bess Truman received the first Medicare Cards in 1966 via the Social Security Act, as seen in this side-by-side photocopy of the cards. The photocopies are courtesy of the Harry S Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Mo. To go with story US-MEDICARE-HISTORY. rlw/Phil Berardelli UPI