Medicaid

Medicaid, two U.S. government programs that guarantee health insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively. They were formally enacted in 1965 as amendments (Titles XVIII and XIX, respectively) to the Social Security Act (1935) and went into effect in 1966.

…into increasing their contributions to Medicaid—the national health insurance program for the poor, jointly funded by the federal government and the states—by revising eligibility requirements to add up to 17 million beneficiaries to the program by 2022. The court also considered, as a preliminary matter, the question of whether it…

…inpatient hospital days covered by Medicaid (a health-insurance program for low-income persons run jointly by the federal government and the states) did not constitute discrimination against disabled persons, even though disabled persons were more likely to require longer hospital stays.

…drastic overhaul of Medicare and Medicaid and called for tax increases for the wealthiest Americans and for the repeal of tax breaks for some corporations, especially those in the oil industry.

…some have been means-tested (Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC], and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps), while others have been available to most or all people independent of means (social security and Medicare). Legally mandated

…insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively—are government insurance programs. The distinction between public and private programs is not always clear, because some governments subsidize private insurance programs.

It also called for Medicaid to be replaced by state-controlled systems funded by federal block grants. Although the proposal failed to garner much support among Republicans in Congress, it proved popular with the party’s conservatives, and Ryan’s influence within the party greatly increased.