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Medicaid and Medicare passed by the U.S.
House of Representatives (307-116) and the U.S.
Senate (70-24) and signed into law by President
Lyndon Johnson on July 30 in Independence, MO,
hometown of President Harry Truman. Medicaid became Title 19 of the Social Security Act. Medicaid
became a federal-state partnership program in which
voluntarily participating states would receive grants
for those eligible in a state to access a defined set of
medical and long-term care benefits.
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