The expansion of Medicare in 2003 made it the

a. largest addition to social welfare since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
b. least expensive domestic federal program.
c. most comprehensive health care plan offered by any national government.
d. most expensive portion of the federal budget.
e. most profitable federal program.


ANS: A

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