Medicare: Who Said That? - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /news/medicare-who-said-that/ ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:37:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Medicare: Who Said That? - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /news/medicare-who-said-that/ 32 32 161476233 Medicare: Who Said That? /news/medicare-who-said-that/ /news/medicare-who-said-that/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:33:00 +0000 http://khn.wp.alley.ws/news/medicare-who-said-that/ In the past year, Medicare politics and policies have grabbed headlines, with politicians from both sides of the aisle talking about “saving Medicare,” “protecting beneficiaries,” “improving quality of care,” and “curbing fraud and abuse.” But a longer look at the program’s history shows that many of these ideas have been a part of the Medicare discourse since its earliest days, beginning even before the program was signed into law.

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