LBJ's health care initiatives included which programs?

• A. Medicare and Medicaid
• B. Social Security and Unemployment
• C. CHIP and ACA
• D. Medicaid and CHIP

Answer: (A)

LBJ’s health care initiatives focused on expanding access to medical care for two groups: the elderly and people with low income. Medicare provides health insurance for Americans 65 and older (and some younger people with disabilities), funded by the federal government. Medicaid offers health coverage for low-income individuals and families, financed through a partnership between the federal government and the states. These were signed into law in 1965 as part of the Great Society efforts to extend social welfare and reduce poverty.

CHIP and the ACA came later—CHIP in 1997 and the ACA in 2010—so they aren’t part of LBJ’s initiatives. Social Security is an older program addressing retirement and disability benefits, not specifically health care, and unemployment insurance covers joblessness rather than health services.

So Medicare and Medicaid best fit the question about LBJ’s health care initiatives.