Surgeries that are purely cosmetic generally aren't covered by Medicare, though there can be some exceptions in certain ...

On This Day: 1965 Medicare Bill . On July 7, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the Social Security Amendments which included the two crucial programs of Medicare and Medicaid.

Jim Morone, professor of political science and urban studies at Brown University, and Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, talked about the 1965 Social Security Amendments law that created the ...

The average Social Security retired worker's monthly benefit in 1965 was $83.92. Cellphones didn't exist, gas was around $0.30 per gallon, and the federal minimum wage was $1.25 an hour.