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Medicaid: Its Impact on Healthcare

LaTisha J. Carroll
The legislation the created the state sponsored Medicaid program (and Medicare) was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30, 1965 (McLaughlin, 2005). The purpose of this program initially was to provide medical coverage for low-income families with children and the disabled who received cash assistance from the government. It's now grown to include all low-income families, not just those that receive cash assistance. Today, Medicaid is the primary provider of health care and long-term care for millions of Americans (Rowland & Garfield, 2000). When most of the other social services, mental health care, and related interventions have been merged into federally block grants, which have been either reduced or under-funded due to inflation, Medicaid has remained as one of the only uncapped programs in the federal-state funded programs (Concannon, 2005).
During Medicaid's 31-year history, it has had many......

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