title: Medicaid: providing health care to (some of) America's poor.
abstract: Although Medicaid has done much to relieve the health care burdens of the poor and the elderly, it is still widely viewed as falling short of its charge to provide the poor and indigent with access to quality health care. The most frequently discussed problems with the program relate to its structure of eligibility, benefits, and payment policy--which vary from state to state. Reforms are desperately needed if Medicaid is to realize its original goal--to provide care for those who would not have access to it otherwise.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Staebler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006077:Government Agencies; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008489:Medical Indigency / Q000191:economics*; D011203:Poverty; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States