Medicaid

Examples of Medicaid in the following topics:

• Health Care in the U.S.

  • Health insurance is now primarily provided by the government in the public sector, with 60-65% of healthcare provision and spending coming from programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Veterans Health Administration.

• Global Aging

  • This strain is occurring in the United States, where people born into the baby boomer generation of the 1950s–1960s are aging and reaching retirement age, thus tapping into Medicaid and social security funds at unprecedented rates.

• Homelessness

  • Medicaid was established to provide healthcare to the indigent, but Medicaid lacks funding to adequately meet homeless needs.

• Health Insurance

  • A new report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published in the magazine Health Affairs, estimates that spending on health care grew to 17.3 percent of the U.S. economy – a record and the largest one-year jump since 1960.

• Health Disparities

  • In addition more private practices are putting limits on the number of medicaid and medicare patients that they will accept because these programs reimburse at a much lower percentage than private insurers.
  • Finding physicians who accept Medicaid and Medicare is becoming increasingly difficult.