Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson waged a war on poverty to rebuild America as a “Great Society” where “no child will go unfed, and no youngster will go unschooled.”
Medicaid was enacted in 1965 as part of sweeping legislation to provide food, education, healthcare and jobs to millions in poverty. Once a benefit for poor single parents and their kids, Medicaid now covers mental illness, disabilities, the elderly and most recently, millions of the previously uninsured through Obamacare.