Medicare and Medicaid at 40
Check out KFF’s new publication, Medicare and Medicaid at 40, published 7-26-05.
The Medicare and Medicaid health coverage programs were signed into lawJuly 30, 1965. The Kaiser Family Foundation has some new resources thatexamine how Medicare and Medicaid came into existence and how they haveevolved over the past 40 years. You will find new documentaries andextended interviews with key policymakers and government officialsexamining the origins of Medicare and Medicaid, new interactivehistorical timelines, a chart pack of key information and statistics, awebcast of a retrospective of the two programs with historian RobertDallek and key government officials responsible for the programs overthe past 40 years, and many other background resources on the twoprograms.