Medicare and Medicaid are very different. Medicaid is a federal program for low-income, financially needy people, set up by the federal government and administered differently in each state. (This program is called Medi-Cal in California.).
1 Chimpanzees have a long mother-infant dependency period. 2  Infants will nurse on their mothers for five years and stay with their mothers several more years learning to care for younger siblings. 3  The life span for chimpanzees is 40 to 50 years in the wild and over 50 to 60 years in captivity.
Chimpanzees cost upward of $60,000, which is considerably more than you would pay even for a giraffe (around $45,000) and 20 or 30 times more than you'd lay out for a zebra or a lion cub. Not everyone buys monkeys from private breeders.