Congress passed the Medicare and Medicaid laws in 1965 as amendments to the Social Security Act.
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Medicare was created in 1965 as Title XVIII of the Social Security act.
Six days later, the Supreme Court upheld the old-age-insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
The retirement program set up by the Social Security Act of 1935 was modest.
Challenges to the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act all failed.
Since the Social Security Act became law in 1935, hundreds of amendments have added to the complexity.
The high mark came in 1935, when Roosevelt signed the Wagner Act that legitimated unions as well as the Social Security Act.
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.
Just as challenges to the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act all failed, challenges to health reform are failing as well.
And initially when community groups started to form health care projects in the late 1930s, they really saw this as an expansion of the Social Security Act that it passed in 1935.
If passed, this will be the most important piece of social policy since the Social Security Act in the 1930s, and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.
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When President Bush initiated the biggest increase in Medicare spending with part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act he refused to raise taxes to pay for it, he and the Republican control congress borrowed the necessary money.
In 1935 when the original Social Security Act was established, the average expected lifespan was 62 years.
The 52-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges under the Social Security Administration Act.
The 1935 Social Security Act and minimum wage laws excluded domestic workers and agriculture workers, a compromise to get Southern legislators to vote in favor of both bills, because 60% of both industries were African-Americans.
As far back as 1987, I was horrified at the detention of human-rights and social activists under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
The Social Security department then took it on and after the equality act reformed discrimination laws in the UK, it had to start the law from scratch.
The most meaningful provision in the 2010 Tax Relief Act was the 2% cut in the Social Security tax rate, from 6.2% to 4.2% (Medicare remains uncapped at 1.45%).
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Sponsored by Representatives Steve Largent (ROklahoma) and Bill Paxon (RNew York), the Tax Code Termination Act will scrap the entire federal income tax code (except for Medicare and Social Security) on Dec. 31, 2002.
This morning, the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees released a new report that demonstrates how the Affordable Care Act is helping to reduce costs and make Medicare stronger.
Joseph Bruno, the state Senate majority leader, who has been at loggerheads with Mr Spitzer since the summer (Mr Spitzer's office accused Mr Bruno of abusing his aircraft privileges), says the policy change is unconstitutional and contradicts a federal act which requires, among other things, a valid Social Security number to get a driver's licence.
Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts on January 2, 2013 as stipulated in the Budget Control Act of 2011 will impact all government programs with few exceptions, such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
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