Health Affairs: Seven Facts About Medicaid
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 07/29/2015 - 16:21
- Medicaid is the largest health care program in the United States and has a great impact on a broad range of Americans
- Medicaid coverage provides access to care that enables the health and well-being of millions of Americans who otherwise would have little or no care at all
- Medicaid enables private insurance and Medicare to function more efficiently and affordably
- Medicaid is more cost efficient than either private insurance or Medicare despite the highly vulnerable population it covers
- Medicaid is exceedingly complex
- Medicaid is financed largely by the federal government
- Medicaid is burdened by geographic and generational disparity
Source: Health Affairs
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