title: Medicaid and disability: the unlikely entitlement.
abstract: Medicaid's extensive and relatively adaptable benefit categories have proved to be singularly suitable to disabled people. The program assists almost one-half of all persons whose disabilities stop them from working. Two primary factors account for this outcome: Medicaid through accretion has taken on new functions and clienteles and, as a welfare program embracing both health and social services rather than offering social insurance, has aptly aided people with disabilities meeting its income qualifications. A proposed revision to Medicaid pending in Congress allowing persons to buy into the program would increase both its constituency and its palatability to recipients and to the broader public.
authors.affiliation: Ohio Department of Human Services, Columbus 43266-0423.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanenbaum
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States