Medicare (United States)

Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It was begun in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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 * I should say in a ten-year period we'd be able to wipe out his debt. We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the with the Covid, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh. Look, if we finally beat Medicare?
 * Joe Biden, as quoted in "At the Presidential Debate, Biden Says He 'Beat Medicare'" (27 June 2024), by Christian Britschgi, Reason and "Biden Loses Train of Thought as He Searches for the Word ‘Medicare’" (June 2024), by Tarini Parti, The Wall Street Journal