Medicare and Medicaid are the 2 things that have been tailor made for those folks who are below the poverty line. It was made an amendment in the U. S. in the year 1965 to the social security act. The folks that were included in this were those below misery line with youngsters, adults aged more than sixty five, folk with disabilities, folks who are blind, pregnant women who are terribly poor, people with low income and unrestrained doctor’s bills.