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Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. There were over 79 million Americans enrolled in the program as of October ...
Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for low-income people and people with disabilities, covers 1 in 5 people living in the U.S. and accounts for nearly $1 out of every $5 spent ...
Medicaid is under review during the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants. Republican leaders are reportedly eyeing Medicaid as a major target in their plan to cut more than $5 trillion ...
If Congress cuts Medicaid expansion, more rural hospitals will be forced to close their doors. Medicaid is the single largest payer for long-term care, maternity care and mental health services.
Sampling some of the opposition points, AARP said that the bill was bad for older adults and people with preexisting conditions, that "[the bill] would undermine critical consumer protections, making health insurance coverage unaffordable and denying people with health conditions the care they need" [15] and that older Americans' annual costs ...
The law includes the largest expansion of Medicaid coverage for poor adults in the program’s history. The ACA creates a new minimum standard allowing legal U.S. residents with incomes just above the poverty level to enroll in the program. The federal government will cover no less than 90 percent of the new spending.
If this provision was enacted in all states, the CBO projected that an average of 1.5 million adults would lose federal funding for Medicaid coverage, which it said could mean 600,000 or more ...
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.