Did JFK really favor Medicare?

The NY Times OpEd by David Blumenthal & James Morone 7/30/05

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/opinion/30blumenthal.html?th&emc=th

continues to myth that JFK favored the bill which would become Medicare.

The strange story of how Medicare really came about is told by Dr. Edward Annis;
in “Code Blue”, from whom I received permission to post excerpts & and outline of
this story http://www.medsaver.org/Medicare.html

There was a non-socialist alternative to health care for the elderly and the indigent; but pundits
continue to bury that thought under the “sacred” JFK mythology. July 30th is the 40th anniversary
of the passage of Medicare.