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Personal care: Optional Medicaid benefit which allows a state to provide attendant services to assist functionally impaired individuals in performing the activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, dressing, feeding, grooming).
Prescription Medication: A drug which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and which can, under federal or state law, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription order from a duly licensed physician.
Preventive Care: Comprehensive care emphasizing priorities for prevention, early detection and early treatment of conditions, generally including routine physical examination, immunization and well person care.
Primary Care: Basic or general health care, traditionally provided by family practice, pediatrics and internal medicine.
Pyramid Schemes: A usually illegal operation in which participants pay to join and profit mainly from payments made by subsequent participants.
Resale store: Buys merchandise outright from individual owners.
SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program): A federal government program created in 1997 to cover health expenses for uninsured children in families whose incomes are too modest to afford health insurance but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program): The new name given to the Federal Food Stamp Program to help emphasize the program’s focus on helping low-income families obtain healthy foods to maintain good health.
Social Security: A United States government program established in 1935 to include old-age and survivors insurance, contributions to state unemployment insurance, and old-age assistance
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