Medicaid — Implications for the Health Safety Net
- 6 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 353 (14) , 1439-1441
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp058063
Abstract
Today, Medicaid helps to finance health and long-term care for more than 55 million low-income children and parents, people with severe disabilities, and elderly Americans, at an annual cost of nearly $300 billion to the federal and state governments. The program currently provides health coverage to 1 in 4 U.S. children, covers half of all spending on nursing home care, and supplements Medicare for 7 million elderly and disabled persons.1,2 Children account for half the enrollees, but the elderly and people with disabilities account for 70 percent of the spending (see graph).3 Medicaid is the nation's health safety net, . . .Keywords
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