DCHP-1 Online
medicare < Medicare, q.v. 
a program, usually government-operated, for providing medical care for all citizens of a country, province, etc.
- 1962 The party . . . had no campaign strategy except to . . . stress medicare and nuclear policy on the hustings. . . .
- 1964 Alberta implemented its own free-enterprise version of medicare--Albertans call it Manning care--on Oct. 1, 1963.
- 1962 The party . . . had no campaign strategy except to . . . stress medicare and nuclear policy on the hustings. . . .