medicare

     

Meicare may refer to several publicly-funded health insurance programs:

Trivia about medicare

  • A June 1996 U.S. government report said this trust fund that pays the elderly's hospital bills may go bust in 2001
  • On July 30, 1965 this bill providing health care for the aged was signed into law
  • Steve is a big fan of this federal insurance program that began covering those over 65 back in '65
  • HHS wanted to explain how to use its prescription drug card for this program
  • In 2010 a Detroit doctor was convicted in a $4.2 million scheme to defraud this program for the elderly
  • This program takes up more than half of the HHS budget--& the Baby Boomers aren't getting younger
  • If the excitement makes Grandma ill, she may get coverage from this government program that turned 35 in 2000