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In 1965, after a long fight in Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law creating Medicare, which offered government-funded health-insurance coverage to all senior citizens over the age of 65, and Medicaid, which gave government coverage to the very poor.
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2001, was created to administer those gigantic programs. The $600 billion agency is the largest health-insurance provider in America.
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