Examples of Medicare in a Sentence
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People earning more than $400,000 would also pay higher Medicare taxes to ensure the program’s financial viability.
—Josh Boak, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
Some White House advisers are adamant that the president needs to hammer home these positive trends, as well as his actions to lower drug prices for seniors on Medicare, spur clean energy manufacturing and approve the biggest investment in the nation’s infrastructure in decades.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
For years, the nonpartisan group has called for revamping Medicare Advantage payments.
—John Tozzi Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
Medicaid can also benefit from price cuts reached through the Medicare process.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
These two proposals expand on actions taken in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which allowed Medicare for the first time to negotiate the price of 20 expensive drugs used by many Americans with diabetes, arthritis and heart disease.
—Bo Erickson, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
The hospital industry has been pushing Medicare officials and lawmakers to address the situation by freeing up cash to hospitals.
—Julie Creswell, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Under the old system, the average out-of-pocket cost for people on Medicare was about sixty-three dollars a month; today, it is capped at thirty-five dollars.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
Without Medigap, Original Medicare has no out-of-pocket maximum.
—Kate Ashford Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
blend of medical and care
First Known Use
1953, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near Medicare
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“Medicare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Medicare. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
Medicare
noun
Medi·care
ˈmed-i-ˌke(ə)r
-ˌka(ə)r
: a government program of medical care especially for the aged
Medical Definition
Medicare
noun
Medi·care
ˈmed-i-ˌke(ə)r, -ˌka(ə)r
: a government program of medical care especially for the elderly
Legal Definition
Medicare
noun
Medi·care
ˈme-di-ˌkar
: a government program of medical care especially for the aged
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