"Despite astronomical overall spending, Medicaid pays the doctors and hospitals actually providing the care only 60 cents for each dollar of healthcare costs they incur. As a result, the poor on Medicaid face grave difficulties in obtaining timely and essential health care, suffering worse health outcomes as a result. Contrary to rhetoric from supporters, Medicaid is far from compassionate."

Medicaid Reform Offers More Compassionate Options for the Poor | Heartlander Magazine

Financing for Medicaid, the national entitlement program providing health care for the poor, is shared with the states under a specific formula, with the federal government paying about 60 percent of the total costs. Under President Barack Obama, provided with a rocket boost from Obamacare, spending...

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