Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump’s big bill is chiseling it back
- Posted on July 30, 2025
- By Chicago Tribune
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Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump’s big bill is chiseling it back

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become…