Health Affairs: Seven Facts About Medicaid

1. Medicaid is the largest health care program in the United States and has a great impact on a broad range of Americans
2. 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
3. Medicaid enables private insurance and Medicare to function more efficiently and affordably
4. Medicaid is more cost efficient than either private insurance or Medicare despite the highly vulnerable population it covers
5. Medicaid is exceedingly complex
6. Medicaid is financed largely by the federal government
7. Medicaid is burdened by geographic and generational disparity

Source: Health Affairs
Source URL: http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/07/29/fifty-years-later-w...

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