Medicaid gets big, beautiful facelift for 60th anniversary

EXCLUSIVE — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz is implementing some of the largest changes to the Medicaid program since it became law 60 years ago this July. 

Medicaid, the health insurance program for disabled and low-income Americans, and Medicare, health insurance for seniors, were signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 30, 1965, as the foundation of the modern American social safety net. Sixty years later, congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump have made some of the largest structural changes to Medicaid since its initial passage and have billed the changes as bringing the program back to its original purpose of providing healthcare to the most vulnerable members of society.

Oz told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview ahead

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