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medicare


noun

  1. (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65.Compare Medicaid.
  2. (lowercase) any of various government-funded programs to provide medical care to a population.

noun

  1. (in the US) a federally sponsored health insurance programme for persons of 65 or older
  2. (often not capital) (in Canada) a similar programme covering all citizens
  3. (in Australia) a government-controlled general health-insurance scheme

name for a state-run health insurance system, 1962, originally in a Canadian context, from medical + care. U.S. use is from 1965. n.

  1. A program under the US Social Security Administration that reimburses hospitals and physicians for medical care provided to qualifying people over 65 years old.

A federal program providing medical care for the elderly. Established by a health insurance bill in 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the Medicare program made a significant step for social welfare legislation and helped establish the growing population of the elderly as a pressure group. (See entitlements.) A federal health insurance program, administered by the Social Security Administration, that provides health care for the aged.

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