U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Statement Marking 59th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, the United States moved a step closer to being a country where health care was recognized as a right, not treated as a privilege only available to a select few. The data are clear: strengthening Medicaid benefits not only the individual, but the community.
