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Thank you We sneak And here's your smoke too sure

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brought to you by the golden years They're not as

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fancy as you think Which federal initiative provided health care

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assistance to people over sixty five and hear the potential

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answers Well back in the early days of the us

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government presidents and lawmakers favored a more hands off approach

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when it came to touch your feel your social services

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But around the new deal era the government took on

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a greater role in building the so called social safety

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net Catching the citizens that fell through the poorly woven

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mash of american society is the federal initiative that provides

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health care assistance to people over sixty five called b

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medicaid Will medic aid was a big part of lyndon

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johnson's great society agenda provides health insurance for low income

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families not the elderly sobibor fit here is federal health

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care assistance for the elderly provided by seat temporary assistance

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to needy families Alright well better known as welfare temporary

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assistant families which succeeded the new deal's aid to families

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with dependent children program provides cash assistance toe low income

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families with children so will fare better with something other

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than si would health Care assistance to people over sixty

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five be provided by d title nine well title nine

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past in nineteen seventy two made gender discrimination illegal when

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it came to federally funded education programs it created women's

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collegiate sports as we know him and see double heo

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What about e The civil rights act of nineteen sixty

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eight civil rights act of nineteen sixty eight was all

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about equal access to housing and it prohibited discrimination in

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the rental financing and sale of real estate So if

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he's home is not where our heart is that means

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federal health care assistance for people over sixty five is

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provided by a medicare will medicare another piece of lbj's

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great society puzzle provides health insurance for elderly americans Where

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do we get the funds to do that we've got

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to do is check out fine print on our paycheck

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from the ice cream parlor shmoop shop and we'll see

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that a portion of our check goes to funding medicare

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So a is the right answer Medicare is an important

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part of the retirement plan for elderly americans since the

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vast majority of our health care expenses occur once we've 00:02:20.22 --> [endTime] clocked out of the workforce no

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