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Medicare|ˈmɛdɪkɛə(r)|
Also medicare.
[f. medical a. + care n.1 4.]
a. Name given in the United States to a scheme of health insurance for the elderly, provided for under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 1965; cf. Medicaid.
b. Name of a similar scheme in Canada. Also attrib.
1962Economist 16 June 1099 Ailing Medicare. 1963Times 25 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. vi/6 The Canadian medicare problem must be seen against Canada's geographical, economic and political background. 1963Punch 16 Oct. 577/3 The cost of providing Medicare..would be less than the annual cost of burying them. 1965New Statesman 6 Aug. 177/1 Last week he [sc. President Johnson] signed the medicare bill. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 1/7 Under the federal medicare legislation starting July 1, Ottawa will pick up half the average per capita cost. 1970Ibid. 28 Sept. 17/1 A meeting of the Quebec Cabinet in Montreal tonight to discuss the possibility of passing emergency legislation to implement medicare. 1971Maclean's Mag. Oct. 65/3 However he discharges his other campaign promises from abolishing deterrent fees for users of Medicare to renegotiating the pulp-mill deal, [etc.]. 1971Optometry Today (Amer. Optometric Assoc.) 22 At present, optometrists..cannot provide optometric services to American senior citizens under the Medicare program. 1973[see Medicaid]. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 Mar. 8/3 Saskatchewan, which introduced medicare amid stormy and turbulent summer days in 1961, is embarking on a denticare programme. |