About Medicaid

About Medicaid

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In 2012, Medicaid provided health coverage for 67 million low-income Americans over the course of the year, including 32 million children, 19 million adults (mostly low-income working parents), 6 million seniors, and 11 million persons with disabilities, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. ($6179 per covered person)

Who Is Eligible for Medicaid?

Medicaid is an “entitlement” program, which means that anyone who meets eligibility rules has a right to enroll in Medicaid coverage. It also means that states have guaranteed federal financial support for part of the cost of their Medicaid programs.

In order to receive federal funding, states must cover certain “mandatory” populations:

• children under age 6 in families with income below 133 percent of the federal poverty line ($25,975 for a family of three in 2013);
• children aged 6-18 in families with income below the poverty line;
• pregnant women with income below 133 percent of the poverty line;
• parents whose income is within the state’s eligibility limit for cash assistance that was in place prior to welfare reform; and
• most seniors and persons with disabilities who receive cash assistance through the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

How Much Does Medicaid Cost? How Is It Financed?

Together, states and the federal government spent about $414 billion on Medicaid services in fiscal year 2011. State policies have a large impact on the amount the federal government spends on Medicaid, not only because states are guaranteed federal Medicaid matching funds for the costs of covered services furnished to eligible individuals, but also because states have broad discretion to determine who is eligible, what services they will cover, and what they will pay for covered services.

414 billion / 313 million = $1,300 per all people

How Does Health Reform Affect Medicaid?

Medicaid will play an even more integral role in insuring low-income Americans as the health reform law is fully implemented over the coming years.

As explained above, in most states, Medicaid coverage of poor adults is extremely limited, and poor non-disabled adults without children aren’t eligible for Medicaid at all. The Affordable Care Act provides coverage for poor and low-income adults by expanding Medicaid to 138 percent of the poverty line ($26,951 for a family of three). The 2012 Supreme Court decision upholding health reform (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) gave states the choice of whether to expand their programs.

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