No, Medicare is a health plan for individuals, and does not provide for dependents. Each person that receives Medicare must be eligible based on paying into Social Security taxes the required length of time (or if a spouse who did not work outside the home, based on the spouse's contributions) and turning age 65 (or being disabled 2+ years or or a couple more situations). If one spouse turns 65 and starts receiving Medicare, the other under-age-65 spouse, or children of the couple, cannot receive Medicare based on that alone.
There is only one Medicare beneficiary per Medicare card , no dependents. You may receive medicare when turning 65 also know as aging in and or medicare disability after being certified on disability for 24 months.
An excellent resource for answering your medicare questions can be found at www.medicare.gov
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An excellent resource for answering your medicare questions can be found at www.medicare.gov