Associations to the word «Medicare»

Wiktionary

MEDICARE, noun. (Canada) The Canadian national health care system
MEDICARE, proper noun. (US) The system of government subsidies for health care for the elderly and disabled.
MEDICARE, proper noun. (Australian) The publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia. [From 1984.]
MEDICARE, proper noun. (Canada) Alternative spelling of medicare

Dictionary definition

MEDICARE, noun. Health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope