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In the United States the Medicare system provides health insurance coverage for those who are above 65 years of age. Medicare is a social insurance program, a single-payer health care system, and it operates in a similar way to the Medicare systems in Canada and Australia, except that in the US it is restricted to those above 65, plus some other groups of people such as the disabled. This article reviews the history of Medicare in the US, from its founding in the Sixties, to the funding crisis faced today due to demographic changes, and to spiraling health care costs. Continue reading →