Recommended Citation

Sallie Sanford, Health Care's Fraternal Twins at 50: The Birth and Development of Medicare and Medicaid Jurist (2015), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/1130

Authors

Sallie Sanford, University of Washington School of LawFollow

Health Care's Fraternal Twins at 50: The Birth and Development of Medicare and Medicaid

Publication Title

Jurist

Keywords

Medicare, Medicaid, history

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This essay first considers the circumstances of Medicare and Medicaid’s birth as part of the Great Society push. Next, it summarizes their growth over the decades as they expanded to address evolving health care challenges. And finally, it assesses where these prominent American fraternal twins stand today.