Medicaid covers more than 75 million low-income and disabled Americans. In this EconoFact Explainer, Mark Shepard unpacks how the program works and the tradeoffs at the heart of these debates: how to balance coverage, cost, access, and federalism.
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Executive Summary Medicaid is a joint federal-state health insurance program that covers over 75 million low-income and disabled Americans as of January 2026. Medicaid, along with the closely linked C...
