Medicaid: Enrollment Is Up 12x to 49 Million While Annual Payments per Beneficiary Are Up 4x to $5K From 1966 to 2009
Real Annual Medicaid Payments per Beneficiary & Enrollment, 1966 - 2009
[Chart Y-Axis Left: Payments per Beneficiary ($/year) $0 - $5,000]
[Chart Y-Axis Right: Enrollment (MM) 0 - 50]
[Chart Legend: Enrollment (bar), Annual Benefits per Enrollee (line)]
[Chart X-Axis: 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006]
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Note: Data are inflation adjusted. Source: Dept. of Health & Human Services.
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Medicaid: Observations
• 49 million (26MM low-income children / 12MM low-income adults / 7MM disabled / 4MM elderly) Americans (16% of population) received an average of $4,684 in tax-payer funded payments from the federal government for healthcare in 2009. For context, $6,872 in healthcare benefits is 13% of average annual per-capita income for Americans.
• When Medicaid was created in 1965 to provide health insurance to low-income Americans, 1 in 50 Americans received Medicaid, now 1 in 6 Americans receives Medicaid.
• That said, Medicaid is an important benefit for recipients as it provides access to healthcare for low-income adults and their children. In recent years, Medicaid beneficiaries and benefit payments have risen faster than population and per-capita income growth owing to expanded coverage, economic difficulties and associated sluggish wage growth for low- and lower-middle-income families, and continued healthcare cost inflation.
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Note: Data are inflation adjusted. Source: Dept. of Health & Human Services.
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