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Centers for Medicare
Overview of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which were signed into law on July 30, 1965. On December 8, 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act, or MMA, was passed to include a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Site features a timeline of milestones, transcripts of oral history interviews with important figures in the history of CMS programs, materials from the 30th and 35th anniversaries of CMS, and related information.
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/History/

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