Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...courage is undisputed. The sales tax enacted at his behest violated his 1962 campaign pledge, but he needed it to implement progressive programs. Rockefeller also bucked vociferous upstate-Republican opposition to push through New York's Medicaid program, an expansion of the 1965 Medicare Act on a statewide basis, which is a model for all states...
Open Drain. The rise in doctors' fees and hospital costs comes as no surprise to the Government, which considered both more or less inevitable. What has been a shock, though, is the way a less prominent medical program has worked out: a system called Medicaid, which was set up by Title 19 of last year's Social Security Act. While Medicare covers persons over 65 through the social-security system, Medicaid is a federal-state-local venture to help the "medically indigent" regardless of age. States wishing to participate were to establish phased programs, with each state defining...