Which is the United States' largest and most expensive health care program?
1. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
2. Social Security
3. Medicare
4. Medicaid
Answer: 3
Rationale: Medicare is the government's largest health care financing program. It serves 40 million people who are elderly and/or have disabilities. Medicaid is a smaller health care program that serves the poor. Social Security and TANF are not health care programs.
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