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Here’s a cool anniversary. 61 years ago today, Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri, to sign Medicare and Medicaid into law. He could have done it at the White House. Instead, he did it next to Harry Truman. Truman had been fighting for national health insurance since 1945. Then LBJ handed him his Medicare card No. 1. At the time, roughly half of Americans over 65 had no health insurance. Whatever you think about how health care should work today, it’s hard to overstate what changed that day. Medicare helped insure some of the most vulnerable people in our country. Millions of older Americans who had struggled to find coverage suddenly had somewhere to turn. And the man who had been fighting for it for 20 years got the very first card. That feels like a pretty cool piece of American history.