Who Receives Medicaid? A State-by-State Breakdown

Center for American Progress ^ | 7/20/2017 | Rachel West and Katherine Gallagher Robbins

[spintreebob]

Dismantling Medicaid is at the heart of President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress’ agenda. President Trump proposed cutting Medicaid by half in his budget, and Congress has proposed taking an ax to the program both through their repeal of the Affordable Care Act as well as through their budget blueprints. In all cases, these cuts to health coverage and services for children, people with disabilities, seniors, and low-income adults whom Medicaid serves would be used to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.

These cuts would have devastating consequences for the individuals, families, and communities that Medicaid serves. Nearly 4 in 10 of the nation’s children receive Medicaid, and the program delivers essential supports to 15 million Americans with disabilities. Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the United States, 64 percent of people in nursing homes, and 1.8 million veterans.

New analysis from the Center for American Progress shows that the more than 1 in 5 Americans who rely on Medicaid hail from all states, age groups, genders, races, and ethnicities.

The draconian Medicaid cuts proposed in legislation and budgets would result in millions of families being unable to afford lifesaving medical care, access basic preventative services for their children, and prevent disastrous medical debts.

Due to the way the ACS reports enrollment, these estimates also include a small share of individuals who receive health coverage through a different income-based public medical assistance program, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which are also at risk under President Trump and congressional Republicans’ health care plan.

... The authors use the ACS because the data produce a conservative estimate of enrollment—and because ... these data also contain demographic information on enrollees.

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They only list 2 genders.

[spintreebob]

The Drastic cuts do NOTreturn spending to pre-ACA days.

The Drastic cuts are cuts in the projected increase in spending that Obama projected last year for the next 10 years.

The D expected increase from 2017 is 10%.
The McConnell expected increase from 2017 is 9.9%
(dpending on how you score it).

[publius911]

New analysis from the Center for American Progress shows that the more than 1 in 5 Americans who rely on Medicaid hail from all states, age groups, genders, races, and ethnicities.

Any group of morons who don't feel the need to identify HOW pipedreams are paid for can babble on forever and can be safely ignored.

I need to hear from human beings from the same universe I inhabit...