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A Primer on Medicare: Key Facts About the Medicare Program and the People it Covers

Flag for USA Kaiser Family Foundation on March 20th 2015
Juliette Cubanski, Christina Swoope, Cristina Boccuti, Gretchen Jacobson, Giselle Casillas and Tricia Neuman
This primer explains key elements of the Medicare program, which now provides health coverage to 55 million people — including 46 million people age 65 and older and another 9 million younger…

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