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US federal health insurance

Key facts

Formed
July 30, 1965 ; 60 years ago ( 1965-07-30 )
Headquarters
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore , Maryland 21244, U.S.
Agency executive
Mehmet Oz , Administrator
Parent department
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Key document
Social Security Amendments of 1965
Website
medicare.gov

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Encyclopedic overview

Medicare plans include the government plan and the privately run Medicare Advantage plan. Medicare Advantage bundles certain features from the government plan.

Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It started in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Medicare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.