Dictionary Definition
Medicare n : health care for the aged; a
federally administered system of health insurance available to
persons aged 65 and over
Extensive Definition
Medicare may refer to several publicly-funded
health insurance programs:
See also
medicare in Korean: 메디케어
medicare in Norwegian: Medicare
medicare in Swedish: Medicare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ADC,
Medicaid, aerospace
medicine, biomedicine, clinical
medicine, comparative medicine, constitutional medicine,
cradle-to-grave security, dosimetric medicine, experimental
medicine, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, health
insurance, internal medicine, leechcraft, leechdom, legal medicine,
materia medica, medical jurisprudence, medicine, military medicine,
naval medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, old-age assistance,
physic, physical
medicine, preclinical medicine, preventive medicine, psychosomatic
medicine, public assistance, public health medicine, relief, sickness insurance,
social insurance, social security, social welfare, socialized
medicine, space medicine, state medicine, therapy, tropical medicine,
unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, veterinary
medicine, welfare,
welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare
statism, welfarism,
womb-to-tomb security