How are Medicare and Medicaid similar? How are they different?

What will be an ideal response?

Ans: Medicare is a social insurance policy designed to help the elderly pay their medical costs. Medicaid is a means-tested welfare program to assist the poor with their medical costs. Although they both provide assistance to pay for medical costs, Medicare is not means-tested, and Medicaid includes all ages, not just the elderly.

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Which of the following Amendments created a two-vote system for the presidential vote?

a. the First Amendment b. the Third Amendment c. the Twelfth Amendment d. the Sixteenth Amendment e. the Eighteenth Amendment

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Building consensus is not always an easy task, for which of the following reasons?

a. American parties are internally divided. b. The two major parties have broad and overlapping bases in the electorate. c. The Constitution assigns primary responsibility for the conduct of elections to state governments. d. Parties have weakened over time. e. All of the above

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