Meet your friends who get Medicaid Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent for the Kaiser Family Foundation describes how Medicaid provides support for a diverse group of Americans, not only the poor.
September 23, 2017
Although it started as a plan to cover only the poor, Medicaid
now touches tens of millions of Americans who live above the
poverty line. The program serves as a backstop for America’s
scattershot health care system. Today Medicaid is the
nation’s largest health insurance program, covering 74 million
people — more than 1 in 5 Americans. Twenty-five percent of
Americans will be on Medicaid at some point in their lives
