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In July 1965, [12] under the leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, Congress enacted Medicare under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide health insurance to people age 65 and older, regardless of income or medical history.
Long title: An Act to provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social Security Act with a supplementary health benefits program and an expanded program of medical assistance, to increase benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System, to improve the Federal-State public assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Most significantly, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 amended Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to create Medicare Part D, the first ...
The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) end and remove sustainable growth rate (SGR) methodology from the determination of annual conversion factors in the formula for payment for physicians' services; (2) establish an update to the single conversion ...
The 2024 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, however, did offer a glimmer of good news for Social Security and a jolt of good news for Medicare. Social Security's key reserve is ...
Medicare. Medicare, the federal health insurance program primarily for people ages 65 and older, faces its own set of challenges. The program is projected to deplete its Hospital Insurance Trust ...
Social Security Act - Title XVIII Health Insurance for The Aged and Disabled (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 as enacted in the US Statutes at Large; H.R. 1 on Congress.gov; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
But in February 2019, then-Senator Harris co-sponsored the Social Security Expansion Act, legislation introduced by fellow senator Bernie Sanders. The bill proposed extending the Social Security ...