Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index There are several publicly-funded health services in various countries called Medicare Medicare (Australia) is a National Health Service, this is, a comprehensive, universal (for all the residents in the country) public health system. Medicare (Canada) is a similar comprehensive public health scheme. Medicare (United States) is a publicly funded health insurance scheme for the elderly and disabled only. See also: Medicaid. Healthcare systems: Liberal healthcare system. Social security. National Health Service. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.