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Trump’s big bill chisels back Medicaid 60 years after its creation

Trump’s big bill chisels back Medicaid 60 years after its creation

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become one of the crowning achievements of his domestic legacy. A year earlier, he did the same for food stamps, drawing on President John F. Kennedy’s …

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