Sacramento County building for Department Of Human Assistance. Providng support to low income residents of the state.

40 States Expanded Medicaid. The Benefits are Piling Up

October 26, 2023

In December, North Carolina will become the 40th state to expand its Medicaid program, providing health insurance coverage to some 300,000 more low-income workers, many of them for the first time. It has taken the states a decade to reach that milestone, despite generous funding from the federal government under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…

A glass jar full of coins and plant growing through it with some coins and plant leaves.

Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits

Working Paper by Gary Burtless

February 20, 2006

Abstract This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) in combination with previously published data on the age profile of public health spending to measure the current and future burden of financing public transfers, particularly benefits supporting the aged and near-aged. The burden of…