Medicaid financing: how does it work and what are the implications?
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Snyder, Laura, author Rudowitz, Robin, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Budgets Financing, Government -- legislation & jurisprudence Medicaid -- economics Medicaid -- legislation & jurisprudence United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Medicaid represents $1 out of every $6 spent on health care in the US and is the major source of financing for states to provide coverage to meet the health and long-term needs of their low-income residents. The Medicaid program is jointly funded by states and the federal government. There has been renewed interest in how Medicaid is financed in light of the additional federal financing for the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as well as ongoing budget discussions at the federal level. This brief reviews how the Medicaid program is financed as well as the implications for budgets, responsiveness to state policy choices and need, the links between Medicaid spending and state economies.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (12 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101660126 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101660126