title: Medicaid at forty.
abstract: This article examines Medicaid's evolution over the last four decades in its role as a health insurer for low-income families, a source of health and long-term care (LTC) coverage for people with disabilities, and as the supplement to Medicare for low-income aged and disabled Medicare beneficiaries. Medicaid's role and impact on each of these beneficiary groups is assessed.
authors.affiliation: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC 20005, USA. DRowland@kff.org
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rowland
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008484:Medicaid / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011203:Poverty; D014481:United States