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As Medicare, Medicaid Turn 50, Obama Assures Further Funding

President Obama used his weekly address on Saturday, Aug. 1, to call attention to the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, saying the social programs were very difficult to pass through Congress and widely disparaged as “socialism” at their inception. He said the two programs would be funded for another 13 years. He also said the number of people without health insurance has decreased by one-third since Obamacare’s passage. Credit: YouTube/The White House