The passage of Medicare and Medicaid legislation was a major change to the U.S. health care system. Besides helping ensure care for the elderly and the poverty-stricken, what was noteworthy about the passage of this legislation?
A. Decrease in the separation between government funding and private physicians
B. Federal intervention into state responsibilities
C. Realization by the public that some persons had not been getting care
D. First time the federal government had put any money into health care
ANS: A
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