Medicaid: Diverse Benefits but High and Growing Costs Ron Haskins for Alliance for Health Reform Washington, DC March 4, 2011
Medicaid Helps Millions of Working Families $51.7 $5.6 Spending in 1999 under: 1984 Law 1999 Law Source: Congressional Budget Office, Policy Changes Affecting Mandatory Spending for Low-Income Families Not Receiving Welfare, 1998.
Medicaid Helps Children During Two Recessions Source: US Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 (Washington DC: Author, 2010), Table C-3. Health Insurance Coverage by Age: 1999 to 2009.
Medicaid and Other Government Programs Reduce Inequality, 1979-2007 Source: Richard Burkhauser and others, “A Second Opinion on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class“ (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2011).
Spending on Medicare and Medicaid Explode, 2010-2021 Source: CBO, The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2011 to 2021, Table 3-1: CBO's Baseline Projection of Outlays and Table 1-7: Budgetary Effects of Selected Policy Alternatives Not Included in CBO's Baseline.