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Medicare and Medicaid are programs that have been developed to assist Americans in attainment of quality health care. Both programs were established in 1965 and are federally supported to provide health care coverage to vulnerable populations such as the elderly, the disabled, and people with low incomes. Both Medicare and Medicaid are federally mandated and determine coverage under each program; both are run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency ("What is Medicare? What is Medicaid?” 2008).

Sultz, H.A. & Young, K.M. (2010). Health Care USA: Understanding its Organization And Delivery (7th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Prior to 1950 surgery was a practice that had many spots that people could not do surgery on because it could easily get infected “Entering the abdomen, for instance, was regarded with reproach — attempts had proved almost uniformly fatal. The chest and joints were also out of reach. The primary remit of surgery was therefore the management of external conditions, and medicine dealt with the internal ones (hence the term “internal medicine,” which persists to this day).”(Atul Gawande, 2012)

Government insurance programs designed to pay for the treatment of disease and medically diagnosed conditions (Peggy S. Stanfield, 2012).

Medicare is health insurance that mainly covers seniors over the age of 65 and disabled people who qualify for Social Security/Disability. Medicare is funded Medicare is funded through 2 trust fund accounts held by the U.S. Treasury. The funds can only be used by Medicare.

Barton, Phoebe Lindsey. Understanding the U.S. Health Services System, Fourth Edition. Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives, 2010.

Bohmer, R., & Knoop, C. I. (2007). The challenges facing the U.S. healthcare delivery system. Harvard Business School, Article 9-606-096.

Medicare and Medicaid are two of the United States largest broken systems, which must sustain themselves in order to provide care to their beneficiaries. Both Medicare and Medicaid are funding by a joint effort between the federal government and the local state government. If and when these governments choose to cut funding or reduce spending, Medicare and Medicaid take the biggest hit. Most people see these two benefits as one in the same, two benefits the government takes out of their pay check to help fund health care. While the government does deduct a sum from paychecks everywhere, Medicare and Medicaid are very two very different programs.

Medicaid and Medicare are two different government programs. Both programs were created in 1965 to help older and low-income families be able to buy their own private health insurance. These programs were part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” plan, a commitment to helping meet the needs of individual health care. They are social insurance programs, which allow the financial load of patient’s illnesses to be shared by other healthy, sick, wealthy, and lower income individuals and families.

The United States healthcare delivery system is a uniquely developed system that involves various features, components, and services. The US delivery system is massive, with total employment in various healthcare settings of qualified medical professionals that provide key functions to delivering quality healthcare. The market-oriented economy in the United States attracts a variety of private entrepreneurs driven by the pursuit of profits obtained by carrying out the key functions of healthcare delivery (Shi et al. 2015).

Due to the upcoming presidential election, the two major political parties, and their candidates, have been focusing on the primary problems that the nation will face. Chief among those problems is the future of Medicare, the national health-insurance plan. Medicare was enacted in 1965, under the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, in order to provide health insurance for retired citizens and the disabled (Ryan). The Medicare program covers most people aged 65 or older, as well as handicapped people who enroll in the program, and consists of two health plans: a hospital insurance plan (part A) and a medical insurance plan (part B) (Marmor 22). Before Medicare, many Americans didn't have health

Government started the Medicare and Medicaid so that the ageing and low income population would get health insurance and to reduce disparities related to socio economic status. Now due to Affordable Care Act there is decrease in uninsured population as it has helped the population by reducing the premium the pay for the health insurance, which has allowed the underinsured, uninsured population and small business employers

Many people are very familiar, and relatively comfortable with term “surgery”, but that has not always been the case. Surgery used to be associated with the fear of immense pain, and also the high probability of dying. The first ideas of cutting open someone for relief of an ailment, was first brought about during the Neolithic Period (10,200- 2,000 BCE) in Egypt. the Egyptians used a tool called the Trephine to drill into a persons brain. “Egyptians practised trephining in an effort to cure migraines - the idea was to ‘let out’ the illness that was causing the headaches” (Surgery). Many people died after having this procedure done. The few that did have it done lived happily, and some even had the procedure done multiple times. Hundreds of years later many new surgical devices came out that increased the amount of surgeries done, and the better they worked. One tool was a

Medicare is the largest health program in the country. This program is government operated and provides health care coverage for over fifty-five million Americans that are over the age of 65 (A Brief History of Medicare in America). It also provides coverage to over eight million Americans with disabilities

Factors That Brought Change in Surgery Many factors brought about changes in Surgery. Surgery in early1800 was dangerous and painful. There was no way of completely relieving the pain suffered by the patient, nor was it possible to replace blood transfusions although blood vessels could be tied up by ligatures to stop the bleeding. Operations went dreadfully wrong and many patients died from blood poisoning.