1. Medicaid: Diverse Benefits but High and Growing Costs
Ron Haskins
for
Alliance for Health Reform
Washington, DC
March 4, 2011

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. 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.