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Volume 361:2009-2012 November 19, 2009 Number 21 Next

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Defined by a history of both achievement and controversy, Medicaid has once again become central to the U.S. health policy debate, this time figuring as a key to national health care reform. Since its creation, Medicaid has repeatedly been called on to compensate for the shortcomings of a market-based health insurance system that excludes the poor and the sick. Whether the goal has been to insure poor children and pregnant women, enable people with disabilities to achieve community integration, treat uninsured women for breast or cervical cancer, or compensate for Medicare's inadequacies in providing care for the elderly poor, Medicaid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the School of Public Health and Health Services and the School of Medicine and Law, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0909449) was published on October 14, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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