What significant health care programs were created under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1965?

In 1965 Medicare and Medicaid were created under what later became the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide basic health insurance for older Americans and low-income individuals and families, respectively. Created as part of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program, these programs were a significant expansion of public health insurance that no initiative would come close to until the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act.