Medicare & Medicaid: What's the Difference?

Medicare & Medicaid: What's the Difference?

Learn about the difference between Medicare and Medicaid and the roles they each play in health care and long-term care.

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Medicare and Medicaid are both government-sponsored and taxpayer-funded health insurance programs, but each is designed to help different populations. Sometimes those populations overlap. The similarity in the names of these programs has contributed to confusion and misunderstanding over what each program covers. Learn the differences between Medicare and Medicaid and how each can potentially assist in circumstances commonly affecting older adults.

Speakers are Laurie T.S. Adamshick, Esq., and Thomas A. Rulon, Esq., elder law attorneys with the elder law practice of Rulon & Adamshick.

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