10 Things to Know About Medicaid

(By Alice Burns, Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Rudowitz, and Maiss Mohamed for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Feb 18, 2025)

Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of health and long-term care to 83 million low-income people in the United States. Medicaid accounts for one-fifth of health care spending, more than half of spending for long-term care, and a large share of state budgets. Medicaid is jointly financed by states and the federal government but administered by states within broad federal rules. Because states have a degree of flexibility to determine what populations and services to cover, how to deliver care, and how much to reimburse providers, there is significant variation across states in program spending and the share of state residents covered by the program. Continue reading here…

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