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Medicare's roots
— what Medicare's architects had in mind | | Author(s) | Robert M Ball |
| Journal title | Generations,, Summer 1996 |
| Publisher | American Society on Aging, Summer 1996 |
| Pages | pp 13-18 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The expectation was that Medicare was to be a first step toward universal national health insurance, and that older people should be covered first, since they were ill-suited for coverage under voluntary private insurance. |
| Accession Number | CPA-960916012 A |
| Classmark | L: TM2: 7T |
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