Medicaid and Medicare. Few words relating to America's health have been mouthed so often since Congress wrote them into law in 1965. Yet few Americans understand them. As a consequence, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has printed 550,000 copies of a deliberately cute, three-color booklet entitled MEDICAIDMEDICAREWhich Is Which? Medicare, it points out, is a federal program and is the same all over the U.S. Medicaid, on the other hand, is a federal-state partnership under which states design their own programs. How widely these vary and how grave are their defects...
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