Tag: Medicaid
An aging population will put pressure on Medicaid. Although immediate Medicaid cuts are off the table with the failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the basic economics underlying the Medicaid program have not changed. Medicaid currently pays for more than half of long-term care expenses (see Figure 1). This outcome reflects the fact that…
Under the American Health Care Act, states will bear a growing burden of the health costs for an aging population. Most people are focused on the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that is designed to repeal and replace Obamacare. But retirement’s my game, so I’m interested in how changes…
