Assessing four decades of Medicare, Medicaid.
Medicare and Medicaid were born 40 years ago, offering the first federally funded safety net for senior citizens, the uninsured and the disabled. While President Theodore Roosevelt, left, first proposed a national health insurance program in 1912, it took decades of political infighting before a program could be created. A look at the past, present and possible future of these important programs begins on Page 6.
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