Medicare at 50 : origins and evolution In the literature (Commonwealth Fund) Hollander, Chris author. Medicare -- organization & administration Since 1965, Medicare has provided millions of older and disabled Americans with guaranteed access to affordable health care. The broad popularity of the program, however, belies the intensely ideological struggle that preceded its creation and that continues in the debate over its future. In the first report of a two-part series published in the New England Journal of Medicine, David Blumenthal, M.D., Karen Davis, and Stuart Guterman trace the origins of Medicare and discuss its accomplishments, the changes it has undergone, and the challenges that remain. [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, 2015 Commonwealth Fund, issuing body. Technical Report Text 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 unnumbered pages)). nlm:nlmuid-101676207-pdf 101676207 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101676207 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0