What became effective in 1966 by an act of legislation that revolutionized home care?
a. Life insurance
b. Medicare
c. Private insurance
d. Social Security
ANS: B
When Medicare became effective in 1966, it revolutionized home care by changing it to a medical rather than nursing model of practice, defining and limiting services it would reimburse, and changing the payment source and even changing the reason home care was provided.
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