title: The challenges of Medicaid.
abstract: Between the president's focus on Social Security and the release of the latest Medicare Trustees report this spring, most of the media's attention has been focused on these two federal programs. But it is Medicaid that is presenting the more immediate challenge for both the current federal budget and the states.
authors.affiliation: Project HOPE, USA. gwilensky@projecthope.org
authors.forename: Gail R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Wilensky
mesh_terms: D005380:Financing, Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States