Medicaid is a government program and Obamacare plans are offered through private health insurance companies. The word Obamacare is used to describe polices obtained through an Affordable Care Act (ACA) health exchange.
JFk ran against Republican candidate Richard Nixon for the 1960 presidential election.
Unlike many Democrats, John F. Kennedy, who served in the Senate with McCarthy from 1953 until the latter's death in 1957, never attacked McCarthy. McCarthy had refused to campaign for Kennedy's 1952 opponent, Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , due to his friendship with the Kennedys.