print email comment close Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): History URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/History/ Description: Overview of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which were signed into law on July 30, 1965. On December 8, 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act, or MMA, was passed to include a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Site features a timeline of milestones, transcripts of oral history interviews with important figures in the history of CMS programs, materials from the 30th and 35th anniversaries of CMS, and related information. Publisher: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Library of Congress Subject Headings: Medicaid Medicaid -- History Medicare Medicare -- History LII Database Information: Record 2351 created by Maria Brandt on 08/15/2005 Last modification on 02/19/2009 Published: 08/15/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2351