Popular name for the Social Security Amendments of 1960 which expanded and modified the Federal government’s existing responsibility for assisting the States in paying for medical care for the aged poor. The Act liberalized Federal sharing in vendor payments for medical care under the Federal/State old-age cash assistance program. It also created a new public assistance category—Medical Assistance for the Aged (MAA). The medically indigent eligible for assistance under this program were persons age 65 or over whose incomes where high enough that they were not eligible for Old Age Assistance but who needed help Li meeting the costs of their medical care. The Federal share of medical payments ranged between 50 and 80 percent depending on the per capita income of the States with no limitation on the maximum amount of payment. The Social Security Amendments of 1965 established the Medicaid program, which substituted a single program of Federal assistance for medical vendor payments under the categorical cash assistance and MAA programs. The concept of medical indigency was extended to needy disabled, blind, and dependent children and their families. In July, 1970, Federal sharing in vendor payments became available only under Medicaid.