What were the purposes of medicare and medicaid?
to offer health screenings for pregnant women

to offer health screenings for school-aged children

to provide prescriptions for the elderly and poor

to provide health care for the elderly and poor

To provide health care for the elderly and poor.

Explanation:

The Social Security Amendments of 1965, was legislation that resulted in the formulation of Medicare and Medicaid, the United States' first public health insurance programs.  Signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this act was part of his Great Society, and it started a time of great accent on public health matters.

the debate held in 1980 by carter and reagan was decisive for the elections. while carter tried to convince people that reagan was a "war hawk", reagan put all his efforts in showing the necessity to take care about medicare and the social security advantage. this debate reagan to win the elections