Examples of Medicaid in the following topics:
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- Poverty alone does not necessarily qualify someone for Medicaid.
- This program allows a Medicaid recipient to have private health insurance paid for by Medicaid.
- Unlike Medicare, which is solely a federal program, Medicaid is a joint federal-state program.
- Medicaid funding has become a major budgetary issue for many states over the last few years.
- Compare and contrast Medicaid and Medicare as social programs provided by the U.S. government
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- The government primarily provides health insurance for public sector employees. 60-65% of healthcare provision and spending comes from programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Veterans Health Administration.
- Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, Obamacare represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
- In 2007, Medicaid provided health care coverage for 39.6 million low-income Americans (although Medicaid covers approximately 40% of America's poor).
- It has been reported that the number of physicians accepting Medicaid has decreased in recent years due to relatively high administrative costs and low reimbursements.
- In 1997, the federal government also created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a joint federal-state program to insure children in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford health insurance.
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- In the long-run, expenditures related to healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are projected to grow faster than the economy overall as the population matures.
- Major categories of FY 2012 spending included: Medicare & Medicaid ($802B or 23% of spending), Social Security ($768B or 22%), Defense Department ($670B or 19%), non-defense discretionary ($615B or 17%), other mandatory ($461B or 13%) and interest ($223B or 6%).
- Social Security spending increased versus 2011 while Defense, Medicare and Medicaid spending fell.
- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid expenditures are funded by more permanent Congressional appropriations and so are considered mandatory spending.
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- The law intends to expand Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL).
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- The government primarily provides health insurance for public sector employees. 60-65 percent of healthcare provisions and spending comes from programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Veterans Health Administration.
- Although the federal Medicare program and the federal-state Medicaid programs possess some monopolistic purchasing power, the highly fragmented buying side of the U.S. health system is relatively weak by international standards, and in some areas, some suppliers such as large hospital groups have a virtual monopoly on the supply side.
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- He did so through the establishment of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid-- federal programs that exist to the present day that ensure certain levels of health care coverage for America's poor and elderly.The Great Society initiative further established educational programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts and generally deployed the executive bureaucracy to better welfare programs for the American public at large.
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- Aid could include general welfare payments, health care through Medicaid, food stamps, special payments for pregnant women and young mothers, and federal and state housing benefits.
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- One of the largest budget expenditures for state governments is Medicaid.
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- Individuals with income up to 133% of the federal poverty level qualify for Medicaid coverage.
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- The plan did not contain proposals to rein in spending on entitlement programs expected to increase the deficit in future years, like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.