<P> The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 offered federal aid to local school districts in assisting them to address the needs of children with limited English - speaking ability until it expired in 2002 . </P> <P> The Great Society programs also provided support for postgraduate clinical training for both nurses and physicians committed to work with disadvantaged patients in rural and urban health clinics . </P> <P> The Social Security Act of 1965 authorized Medicare and provided federal funding for many of the medical costs of older Americans . The legislation overcame the bitter resistance, particularly from the American Medical Association, to the idea of publicly funded health care or "socialized medicine" by making its benefits available to everyone over sixty - five, regardless of need, and by linking payments to the existing private insurance system . </P> <P> In 1966 welfare recipients of all ages received medical care through the Medicaid program . Medicaid was created on July 30, 1965 under Title XIX of the Social Security Act of 1965 . Each state administers its own Medicaid program while the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) monitors the state - run programs and establishes requirements for service delivery, quality, funding, and eligibility standards . </P>

The great society was based on which model