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Medicare is a medical insurance program for people over 65 and younger disabled people and dialysis patients. Visit Medicare.gov for more information.

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Medicaid is an assistance program for low-income patients' medical expenses. Visit Medicaid.gov for more information.

CHIP - Children's Health Insurance Program

CHIP provides low-cost health coverage to children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid. Learn more about CHIP at Medicaid.gov.

Mental Health and Substance Use Insurance Help

Learn about efforts to require health insurers to provide the same level of benefits for mental health and substance use disorder services that they do for other medical care.

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Content last reviewed December 1, 2021
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