Medicaid and Medicare Turn 50

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50 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid. 

Despite their popularity with seniors, the disabled, the needy, and those who might otherwise have to care for them, Medicare and Medicaid have done enormous damage to the U.S. health care sector and to individual liberty.

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