today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful." Implementation of the amendments required extensive data processing and the re-configuration of hospital policies nationwide. Effects In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the federal government doubled the number of physicians trained in the US from 8,000 to 16,000 a year. There was a hospital building boom that moved from inpatient wards to one- and two-patient hospital rooms. References 1965 in law Social security in the United States United States federal health legislation Medicare and Medicaid (United States) Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson 89th United States Congress