Today, Medicaid helps to finance health and long-term care formore than 55 million low-income children and parents, peoplewith severe disabilities, and elderly Americans, at an annualcost 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 disabledpersons.1,2 Children account for half the enrollees, but theelderly and people with disabilities account for 70 percentof the spending (see graph).3 Medicaid is the nation's healthsafety net, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Rowland is the executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington, D.C.
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