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Busting Budgets And Relieving Suffering: The Case Of Medicaid

Medicaid, the so-called sleeper component of the Social Security Act of 1965, has clearly come of age in Washington and state capitals as a program of very large proportions. Medicaid has eclipsed its more popular counterpart, Medicare, with respect to the number of people each program covers and the public revenues they spend each year to finance the coverage of their eligible beneficiaries. Enrollment in Medicaid has risen from four million in 1966 to forty-seven million in 2002. The latter figure represents far fewer children and nonelderly adults than are now eligible to receive services under this federal-state program. Over . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

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