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A Primer on Medicare: Key Facts About the Medicare Program and the People it Covers
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…
Topics in this document
Great Society programs
Medicare (United States)
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medicare Advantage
Medigap
Hospital readmission
Medicare dual eligible
Accountable care organization
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Healthcare industry
Medicine
United States elder law
Economics of service industries
Medicare and Medicaid (United States)
Health policy
Healthcare
Health economics
Health
Health care
Bundled payment
Publicly funded health care
Medical home
Medicare Part D coverage gap
Health sciences
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare Part D
United States federal budget
Social policy
Independent Payment Advisory Board
Related SDGs
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