How Medicaid Fails the Poor

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Avik Roy. How Medicaid Fails the Poor

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It may seem strange to say this, but Medicaid – a program that in 2013 cost taxpayers more than $450 billion – started out as an afterthought. In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, American progressives believed that the most politically palatable way to expand government sponsorship of health care was to begin with the elderly.

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