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Noun: medicare  'me-di,kehr
Usage: Cdn, Austral
  1. National public health scheme financed by taxation
    "Medicare provides essential healthcare coverage for millions of Canadians"
Noun: Medicare  'me-du,kehr
Usage: US
  1. A federal health insurance program in the United States for people aged 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with end-stage renal disease
    "She enrolled in Medicare when she turned 65"

Derived forms: medicares

Type of: health care

Encyclopedia: Medicare