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Medicare

A federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and certain younger people with disabilities. It also covers people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).
Medicare isn’t part of the Health Insurance Marketplace®. If you have Medicare coverage you don’t have to make any changes. You’re considered covered under the health care law.