how were medicare and medicaid founded?
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Tax Payers money, but better then spending it on Iraq. Sorry I misread your question. It was founded during the Johnson adminastration as part of the war on poverty. Some things worked and some things didn't I personally think that we have outgrown medicaid and need to go to a national health system.
201422
Federal payments for healthcare via the Medicaid system totaled 275billion in 2003 which are the most recent numbers I have.  It’s also important to remember in terms of tax dollars being spent you can about double whatever the Feds spent in matched state funds. Medicaid expenditures were rising at a rate of about 10% per year between 01-03.\n\nHope that helps,\nArmus
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Everyone in the U.S. that works and pays taxes should know they're having money taking out of their check to pay Medicare/Medicaid.\n\nAttached is a link about Medicare/Medicaid.  \nThere probably are state and city assistant programs avaliable too.
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The patients or thier family pay the nursing facility to care for them.  Many recieve thier money from medicare.\n\nThen they have to keep all of thier costs under what they take in.
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bought prescription drugs for americans.
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It sets up a government.
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Medicare is what people (kind of a medical/health insurance) can get at age 65 with you social security.  Medicaid is health coverage for low to no income people.  Most of the time Medicare is Federal and Medicaid is State.
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Social insurance\n\nBefore government-run social insurance programs were enacted, private groups had developed the concept of shared risk. In ancient Greece and Rome there were burial societies to which people contributed regularly to ensure that upon their deaths they would be buried with dignity. Some Medieval guilds had programs under which members contributed to funds which were drawn upon when members were no longer able to work, or died. In more recent times, some fraternal organizations and labor unions had similar programs. Many of the systems in continental Europe were developed, not through the state, but through occupational, mutualist and voluntary organisations.\n\nThe first state-run social insurance program paying retirement benefits was implemented in Germany in 1889 by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck sought to hold back the historical wave that was building in support of socialism across Europe at the time. His system was funded with payroll taxes paid by the employee and the employer, along with contributions from the government. It also included a disability benefit. Today such programs are common, though not universal, among developed countries. They often include features of the initial German system.\n\nIn the United Kingdom the first contributory pension scheme was enacted in 1911, enthusiastically supported by Winston Churchill who described the social insurance principle as "bringing the miracle of averages to the rescue of the millions". Subsequently, the Beveridge Report of 1942 offered the main alternative model. Beveridge attempted to make insurance the basis for a comprehensive, universal scheme covering all the main social needs. President Franklin Roosevelt described the ideal social insurance system as one which provided economic protection "from the cradle to the grave."\n\nSocial security is seen as providing assistance to retired workers, often in the form of a superannuation system that provides a pension from a fund to which workers and their employers (and in most countries the government) have contributed throughout their working lives. Workers may also contribute to some form of insurance scheme that provides income and assistance in the event of injury or illness for them and their families. While the scheme may be compulsory, the contributions or historic income often determine the level of support provided, once basic eligibility criteria such as age or inability to work are established. In most of the developed "first world" countries, social security also includes a system of universal health care.\n\nAnd That's My Best Answer!
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The insurance company's lobby the politicians so that they will not go to socialized medicine, it would be a loss of billions of dollars to them, they would have to find a different racket, no pun intended as I do feel insurance company's are legal organized crime. Health care has soared in recent years and they are the main reason why. All you have to do is look north to see how well health care works without insurance company's.
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Here's a bunch of facts on healthcare.  They give dollar amounts, so all you need is to figure out the population and divide.\n\nhttp://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
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Because the money to pay the doctors, hospital, labs, etc. has to come from somewhere.  If insurance was free, where would the insurance companies get the money to pay all those bills for our visits or hospitalizations?
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"Funding for the Medicare program is projected to be $340 billion in 2006. Medicare consists of four parts: \n\nPart 1: hospital insurance, which provides coverage for hospitals, skilled nursing, hospice, and other related services; \n\nPart 2: supplementary medical insurance, which provides coverage for outpatient hospital, physician, home health, laboratory services, durable medical equipment, and other related services; \n\nPart 3: Medicare Advantage, which finances the full Medicare benefit through private plans; and \n\nPart 4: the new prescription drug benefit."
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first, how do you plan on getting paid? most will expect medicare or insurance coverage. you must have medicare provider number in order to bill medicare, are you going to provide concentrators, equipment etc. where will you get referrals? do you have a business plan? what insurers will accept your billing? do you have enough cash reserves to last until paid? insurers and medicare never pay within 30 days. who will maintain equipment? are you going to buy new or used? what other services can you provide besides respiratory? how much insurance will you need? are you going to buy or rent oxygen cylinders? how will you handle after hours emergencies when equipment breaks or elderly patient does not operate it correctly? someone has to be on call. how much equipment will you need and where can you get fast delivery when you begin to run short? if medicare goes to competitive bidding how will you compete against national chains...apria, lincare, american home patient etc? how much competition in area? find an area underserved.\n\nanswer some of these and you will have an idea...good luck, i just sold mine.
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I assume you are referring to Medicaid, not medicare. Medicaid is a welfare program that one has to qualify for based on need while medicare is a health insurance for individuals over 65.\n\nIf you are buying his home for a reasonable price, then there is no problem, although the assets he would have from the sale of the house might preclude your uncle from qualifying for medicaid.
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If you are in Broward county you can sign up for Browards Hospital Districts audult care facility.  http://www.mhabroward.org/medicalcare.html\n\nOr since you have cancer you may want to apply for SSI and they will automatically set you up with medicaid.
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To me it looks like it took the work and foresight of two Presidents.  Truman got the ball originally rolling, but was unable to get the legislative support behind it.  However, Johnso came along 20 years later, breathing new life into the idea and was able to get it passed as part of a plan for the greater good of society in his.\n\n\n1945            Harry Truman sends a message to Congress asking for legislation establishing a national health insurance plan.  Two decades of debate ensue, with opponents warning of the dangers of "socialized medicine."\n\nBy the end of Truman's administration, he had backed off\nfrom a plan for universal coverage, but administrators in\nthe Social Security system and others had begun to focus\non the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security\nbeneficiaries.\n\nJuly 30, 1965   Medicare and its companion program Medicaid,            (which insures indigent recipients), are signed into law by\nPresident Lyndon Johnson as part of his "Great Society."
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Im not sure where you are in the world but where I live they have the medicaid program which is available in almost every state in the continental U.S my wife was on it and my son is now they covered all of her necessary medical and his as well hopefully this info helps some please let me know i would appreciate it