Both Social Security and Medicare:
A. Provide government health care.
B. Provide insurance to the working poor.
C. Are designed to help young people.
D. Are designed to help the elderly.
Medicare is a social security coverage program administered by the United States government, which provides medical care to all people over 65 years of age or younger who are considered disabled due to serious health problems, such as cancer, kidney failure in need of dialysis, etc. The program also funds the training programs of resident physicians in the United States. Medicare operates as a person insurance. The Social Security Act of 1965 was approved by Congress in the late spring of 1965 and passed into law on July 30, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, as an amendment to create new social security legislation. At the signing ceremony, President Johnson enrolled former President Harry Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and gave him the first Medicare card and his wife Bess the second card.
Social Security Administration, SSA is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that administers Social Security, which administers the social security program that consists of retirement, disability, and survivorship benefits. To qualify for these benefits, most American workers pay Social Security taxes on their income; and your future benefits are based on employee contributions.
