Social Security Report

Medicare: A historical perspective

The Medicare program came into being in 1965, but the road to get there started much earlier in the 1940’s.  This Huffington Post article by contributor Kathleen Weldon looks back over the history of Medicare and how it went from idea to reality over the course of many Presidents.  Click here to read more.

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