<span>Medicare and Medicaid were part of the Social Security system developed during the New Deal under President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Social Security Act of 1935 created the Social Security Board to oversee the new programs of social insurance to care for workers in their old age, as well as providing unemployment insurance, aid to mothers of dependent children and blind and physically disabled persons. The Social Security Board was renamed the Social Security Administration in 1946. In 1965, under the Lyndon Johnson administration, the Social Security Act Amendments were passed and signed into law, creating the health benefits programs known as Medicare and Medicaid.</span>
The Social Security System was a system created under the Social Security Act of 1935, developed during the New Deal period. It was intended to provide financial protection and benefits to retirees and disabled people, and to those worker's spouses, children, and survivors. In the beginning, the legislation did not provide for the creation of the healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid; these two major programs were established in the Social Security Amendments of 1965 and still work nowadays providing federal health insurance for the elderly (over 65), for people with end-stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and for poor families.
