This Fact Sheet on Medicare explains how Medicare provides older Americans with access to essential health services and has substantially reduced the financial burden associated with serious illness. Yet, the program provides fewer benefits than most employer-sponsored health insurance and covers only about half of beneficiaries’ total health care costs.
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