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"Entitlement Programs."
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and national debt payments.
Lyndon Johnson started Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that the elderly and the poor would have medical care.
IRA's are not an eligibility factor for Social Security or Medicare. However, they are considered an asset for Medicaid.
Social Security
On medicaid they say I qualify for a buy in under QMB .The state is paying my buy in but medicare sends me the bills and insist that Medicaid is not paying. I have been trying to straiten this out for 18 months now .medicare blames social security , social security blames medicaid , medicaid blames social security. Now I am told the Dept. of buy-ins is the only ones that can fix the problem. Is there such a Dept? How could I contact them?
Title 19 (of the Social Security Act) is Medicaid.
These programs meet national needs - it's simply not practicable to have 50 different versions of the US Marine Corps, or Social Security for that matter!BTW, altho the Feds provide most of the funding, the States administer Medicaid.
Entitlement programs in the United States include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food assistance programs like SNAP. These programs provide benefits to eligible individuals based on their specific circumstances or needs, rather than being subject to discretionary funding decisions by the government.
Income security payments , Medicare and Medicaid, and National Security defense.
The Social Security administration is responsible for collecting and handling the funds.
ua tax payers and Social Security Administration