Medicaid was created by Congress in 1965, and focused on providing health care benefits to recipients of certain cash assistance programs. More than four decades of incremental policy expansion have made it the largest government health program-providing benefits to more people and at a higher cost than Medicare.
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What George Bailey Understood About Housing and Families
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey’s great ambition is not wealth or status. It is something far more ordinary and far more powerful: the ability for working families to afford a home, put down roots, and build a future together. Bedford Falls thrives not because of grand social programs, but because ordinary people can buy modest homes...
December 17, 2025