California has more Medicaid and CHIP enrollees than any other state in the United States. As of April 2023, approximately ** million Americans were enrolled in the Medicaid health insurance programs in California, which accounted for approximately ** percent of the total number of Medicaid enrollees nationwide (**** million). Blow to Medicaid expansion plans California is one of many states that has expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to encourage more low-income adults to sign up for health coverage. One of the original aims of the ACA was to limit some of the variations in state Medicaid programs, but the Supreme Court ruled that the expansion should be optional. Governors of the states that did not expand said they were concerned about long-term costs. California is the leading state for Medicaid expenditure, spending approximately **** billion U.S. dollars in FY2020. Health coverage for children The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was created as a complement to Medicaid, expanding the reach of government-funded health coverage to more children in low-income families. As of May 2021, over **** million children were enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP programs in California, more than any other state. As of January 2021, the median Medicaid/CHIP eligibility level for children was *** percent of the federal poverty level.
The percentage of Americans covered by the Medicaid public health insurance plan increased from **** percent in 2020 to around **** percent in 2023. However, the percentage of those insured through Medicaid remains lower than the peak of **** percent in 2015. The expansion of Medicaid The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided the option for states to expand Medicaid eligibility to people whose income was below a particular threshold. The ACA’s major coverage expansion came into force in 2014, and the number of individuals estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid has since surpassed ** million. More than ** million children were enrolled in the program in 2018, representing ** percent of overall Medicaid enrollment. State Medicaid coverage Initially, the ACA mandated that all state Medicaid programs would have to be extended to provide medical coverage to nearly all low-income groups. However, the Supreme Court rejected that part of the act in 2012, leaving the door open for states to make their own decision on whether they expand their plans. As of September 2021, ** states plus the District of Columbia have adopted the Medicaid expansion.
Children accounted for 36.5 percent of Medicaid enrollees in 2021, which was the largest share of all enrollment groups. The elderly and persons with disabilities had the smallest shares, but together they accounted for more than half of all Medicaid expenditure.
Medicaid expenditures per enrollee Medicaid is a joint federal and state health care program in the United States. The program provides medical coverage to millions of Americans and supports a variety of enrollment groups, particularly senior citizens and individuals with disabilities. Medicaid per enrollee spending is significantly higher for these two groups because they require more frequent and costly long-term care in the community and nursing homes. In 2022 of the total U.S. health expenditure on home health care, Medicaid paid one-third.
Millions of Americans are uninsured The United States has a multi-payer health care system, meaning that some Americans will be covered by private health insurance, and others will be covered by a government program such as Medicaid. However, approximately 27.6 million people in the U.S. had no health insurance in 2021, and should they require health care, they would have to pay the full price out of their own pocket. This becomes a real problem for many because the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world.
In 2023, some 47.6 percent of Medicaid and CHIP enrollees were aged between 18 and 64 years, while adults aged 65 years accounted for only eight percent of enrollees. Medicaid program is funded jointly by the federal and the state governments, it provided coverage to nearly 19.5 percent of the U.S. population in 2022. Medicaid vs CHIPMedicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) both provide health insurance coverage for children from low-income families. Children who are not eligible for Medicaid but who would otherwise be unable to obtain insurance through a family plan are covered by CHIP. More than five million children were enrolled in CHIP in the U.S. in 2023. Medicaid and CHIP funding rateThe Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAPs) are used to calculate the amount of federal matching funds for State Medicare and CHIP programs. To encourage states to expand coverage for uninsured children the federal matching rates for CHIP are generally 15 points higher than the Medicaid rate. However, unlike permanent federal funding for Medicaid, CHIP federal funding is capped and due to expire in FY 2027.
This map shows where people have Medicaid or means-tested healthcare coverage in the US (ages under 65). This is shown by State, County, and Census Tract, and uses the most current ACS 5-year estimates.The map shows the percentage of the population with Medicaid or means-tested coverage, and also shows the total count of population with Medicaid or means-tested coverage. Because of Medicare starting at age 65, this map represents the population under 65. This map shows a pattern using both centroids and boundaries. This helps clarify where specific areas reach. The data shown is current-year American Community Survey (ACS) data from the US Census. The data is updated each year when the ACS releases its new 5-year estimates. To see the original layers used in this map, visit this group. To learn more about the vintage and data source, click here to visit the Living Atlas layer used in the map.To learn more about when the ACS releases data updates, click here.
In the fiscal year 2022, Medicaid expenditure in California amounted to a total of about 119 billion U.S. dollars, of which 81 billion U.S. dollars were federal-funded and approximately 38 billion U.S. dollars were state-funded. California had, as expected, the highest spending and also the largest number of people enrolled in Medicaid in the United States. The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) varies by state depending on the state's per capita income compared to the national average.
Metrics from individual Marketplaces during the current reporting period. The report includes data for the states using HealthCare.gov. Sources: HealthCare.gov application and policy data through October 6, 2024, HealthCare.gov inbound account transfer data through November 7, 2024, and T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) through July 2024 (TAF version 7.1). The table includes states that use HealthCare.gov. Notes: This table includes Marketplace consumers who submitted a HealthCare.gov application from March 6, 2023 - October 6, 2024 or who had an inbound account transfer from April 3, 2023 - November 7, 2024, who can be linked to an enrollment record in TAF that shows a last day of Medicaid or CHIP enrollment from March 31, 2023 - July 31, 2024. Beneficiaries with a leaving event may have continuous coverage through another coverage source, including Medicaid or CHIP coverage in another state. However, a beneficiary that lost Medicaid or CHIP coverage and regained coverage in the same state must have a gap of at least 31 days or a full calendar month. This table includes Medicaid or CHIP beneficiaries with full benefits in the month they left Medicaid or CHIP coverage. ‘Account Transfer Consumers Whose Medicaid or CHIP Coverage was Terminated’ are consumers 1) whose full benefit Medicaid or CHIP coverage was terminated and 2) were sent by a state Medicaid or CHIP agency via secure electronic file to the HealthCare.gov Marketplace in a process referred to as an inbound account transfer either 2 months before or 4 months after they left Medicaid or CHIP. 'Marketplace Consumers Not on Account Transfer Whose Medicaid or CHIP Coverage was Terminated' are consumers 1) who applied at the HealthCare.gov Marketplace and 2) were not sent by a state Medicaid or CHIP agency via an inbound account transfer either 2 months before or 4 months after they left Medicaid or CHIP. Marketplace consumers counts are based on the month Medicaid or CHIP coverage was terminated for a beneficiary. Counts include all recent Marketplace activity. HealthCare.gov data are organized by week. Reporting months start on the first Monday of the month and end on the first Sunday of the next month when the last day of the reporting month is not a Sunday. HealthCare.gov data are through Sunday, October 6. Data are preliminary and will be restated over time to reflect consumers most recent HealthCare.gov status. Data may change as states resubmit T-MSIS data or data quality issues are identified. See the data and methodology documentation for a full description of the data sources, measure definitions, and general data limitations. Data notes: The percentages for the 'Marketplace Consumers Not on Account Transfer whose Medicaid or CHIP Coverage was Terminated' data record group are marked as not available (NA) because the full population of consumers without an account transfer was not available for this report. Virginia operated a Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE) on the HealthCare.gov platform during 2023. In 2024, the state started operating a State Based Marketplace (SBM) platform. This table only includes data about 2023 applications and policies obtained through the HealthCare.gov Marketplace. Due to limited Marketplace activity on the HealthCare.gov platform in November 2023, data from November 2023 onward are excluded. The cumulative count and percentage for Virginia and the HealthCare.gov total reflect Virginia data from April 2023 through October 2023. APTC: Advance Premium Tax Credit; CHIP: Children's Health Insurance Program; QHP: Qualified Health Plan; NA: Not Available
In 2021, 27 percent of Hispanic people in non-Medicaid expansion states were uninsured, this was almost double in comparison to 15 percent in Medicaid expansion states. In general, most ethnic groups are more likely to be uninsured in non-Medicaid expansion states compared to expansion states. This statistic shows the share of population by ethnicity without health insurance in the United States in 2021, by state Medicaid expansion status.
As of August 1, 2024, approximately 2.5 million Medicaid enrollees have been disenrolled in Texas, the highest number of people disenrolled across all states in the United States. Overall, more than 24.5 million people in the United States have lost their Medicaid coverage, the majority of those terminations were for so-called procedural reasons, which means that the enrollees did not finish the renewal process for various reasons.
Metrics from individual Marketplaces during the current reporting period. The report includes data for the states using State-based Marketplaces (SBMs) that use their own eligibility and enrollment platforms
Source: State-based Marketplace (SBM) operational data submitted to CMS. Each monthly reporting period occurs during the first through last day of the reported month. SBMs report relevant Marketplace activity from April 2023 (when unwinding-related renewals were initiated in most SBMs) through the end of a state’s Medicaid unwinding renewal period and processing timeline, which will vary by SBM. Some SBMs did not receive unwinding-related applications during reporting period months in April or May 2023 due to renewal processing timelines. SBMs that are no longer reporting Marketplace activity due to the completion of a state’s Medicaid unwinding renewal period are marked as NA. Some SBMs may revise data from a prior month and thus this data may not align with that previously reported. For April, Idaho’s reporting period was from February 1, 2023 to April 30, 2023.
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This data is pulled from the U.S. Census website. This data is for years Calendar Years 2009-2014. Product: SAHIE File Layout Overview Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Program - SAHIE Filenames: SAHIE Text and SAHIE CSV files 2009 – 2014 Source: Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Program, U.S. Census Bureau. Internet Release Date: May 2016 Description: Model‐based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for Counties and States File Layout and Definitions
The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program was created to develop model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for counties and states. This program builds on the work of the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. SAHIE is only source of single-year health insurance coverage estimates for all U.S. counties.
For 2008-2014, SAHIE publishes STATE and COUNTY estimates of population with and without health insurance coverage, along with measures of uncertainty, for the full cross-classification of: •5 age categories: 0-64, 18-64, 21-64, 40-64, and 50-64
•3 sex categories: both sexes, male, and female
•6 income categories: all incomes, as well as income-to-poverty ratio (IPR) categories 0-138%, 0-200%, 0-250%, 0-400%, and 138-400% of the poverty threshold
•4 races/ethnicities (for states only): all races/ethnicities, White not Hispanic, Black not Hispanic, and Hispanic (any race).
In addition, estimates for age category 0-18 by the income categories listed above are published.
Each year’s estimates are adjusted so that, before rounding, the county estimates sum to their respective state totals and for key demographics the state estimates sum to the national ACS numbers insured and uninsured.
This program is partially funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC), National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection ProgramLink to a non-federal Web site (NBCCEDP). The CDC have a congressional mandate to provide screening services for breast and cervical cancer to low-income, uninsured, and underserved women through the NBCCEDP. Most state NBCCEDP programs define low-income as 200 or 250 percent of the poverty threshold. Also included are IPR categories relevant to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2014, the ACA will help families gain access to health care by allowing Medicaid to cover families with incomes less than or equal to 138 percent of the poverty line. Families with incomes above the level needed to qualify for Medicaid, but less than or equal to 400 percent of the poverty line can receive tax credits that will help them pay for health coverage in the new health insurance exchanges.
We welcome your feedback as we continue to research and improve our estimation methods. The SAHIE program's age model methodology and estimates have undergone internal U.S. Census Bureau review as well as external review. See the SAHIE Methodological Review page for more details and a summary of the comments and our response.
The SAHIE program models health insurance coverage by combining survey data from several sources, including: •The American Community Survey (ACS) •Demographic population estimates •Aggregated federal tax returns •Participation records for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program •County Business Patterns •Medicaid •Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) participation records •Census 2010
Margin of error (MOE). Some ACS products provide an MOE instead of confidence intervals. An MOE is the difference between an estimate and its upper or lower confidence bounds. Confidence bounds can be created by adding the margin of error to the estimate (for the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (for the lower bound). All published ACS margins of error are based on a 90-percent confidence level.
In fiscal year 2021, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) spent a total of about 20.9 billion U.S. dollars, of which 15.8 billion U.S. dollars were federal-funded and 5.1 billion U.S. dollars were state-funded. California had, as expected the highest spending and also the largest number of children enrolled in CHIP/Medicaid. The federal government matches spending for both Medicaid and CHIP, but has a higher match rate for CHIP than traditional Medicaid. The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) varies by state depending on the state's per capita income compared to the national average. This statistic illustrates CHIP spending in the United States in FY 2021, by state and state & federal share.
This data set includes annual counts and percentages of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees by primary language spoken (English, Spanish, and all other languages). Results are shown overall; by state; and by five subpopulation topics: race and ethnicity, age group, scope of Medicaid and CHIP benefits, urban or rural residence, and eligibility category. These results were generated using Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) Analytic Files (TAF) Release 1 data and the Race/Ethnicity Imputation Companion File. This data set includes Medicaid and CHIP enrollees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands who were enrolled for at least one day in the calendar year, except where otherwise noted. Enrollees in Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and select states with data quality issues with the primary language variable in TAF are not included. Results shown for the race and ethnicity subpopulation topic exclude enrollees in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Results shown overall (where subpopulation topic is "Total enrollees") exclude enrollees younger than age 5 and enrollees in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Results for states with TAF data quality issues in the year have a value of "Unusable data." Some rows in the data set have a value of "DS," which indicates that data were suppressed according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Cell Suppression Policy for values between 1 and 10. This data set is based on the brief: "Primary language spoken by the Medicaid and CHIP population in 2020." Enrollees are assigned to a primary language category based on their reported ISO language code in TAF (English/missing, Spanish, and all other language codes) (Primary Language). Enrollees are assigned to a race and ethnicity subpopulation using the state-reported race and ethnicity information in TAF when it is available and of good quality; if it is missing or unreliable, race and ethnicity is indirectly estimated using an enhanced version of Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) (Race and ethnicity of the national Medicaid and CHIP population in 2020). Enrollees are assigned to an age group subpopulation using age as of December 31st of the calendar year. Enrollees are assigned to the comprehensive benefits or limited benefits subpopulation according to the criteria in the "Identifying Beneficiaries with Full-Scope, Comprehensive, and Limited Benefits in the TAF" DQ Atlas brief. Enrollees are assigned to an urban or rural subpopulation based on the 2010 Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) code associated with their home or mailing address ZIP code in TAF (Rural Medicaid and CHIP enrollees in 2020). Enrollees are assigned to an eligibility category subpopulation using their latest reported eligibility group code, CHIP code, and age in the calendar year. Please refer to the full brief for additional context about the methodology and detailed findings. Future updates to this data set will include more recent data years as the TAF data become available.
The percentage of people in the United States with health insurance has increased over the past decade with a noticeably sharp increase in 2014 when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted. As of 2023, around ** percent of people in the United States had some form of health insurance, compared to around ** percent in 2010. Despite the increases in the percentage of insured people in the U.S., there were still over ** million people in the United States without health insurance as of 2023. Insurance coverage Health insurance in the United States consists of different private and public insurance programs such as those provided by private employers or those provided publicly through Medicare and Medicaid. Almost half of the insured population in the United States were insured privately through an employer as of 2021, while **** percent of people were insured through Medicaid, and **** percent through Medicare . The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2014, has significantly reduced the number of uninsured people in the United States. In 2014, the percentage of U.S. individuals with health insurance increased to almost ** percent. Furthermore, the percentage of people without health insurance reached an all time low in 2022. Public opinion on healthcare reform in the United States remains an ongoing political issue with public opinion consistently divided.
In 2023, just four in ten Medicaid/CHIP enrollees were White, non-Hispanic. In comparison, roughly three-quarters of Medicare beneficiaries were White. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion in 2014, has helped reduce racial disparities in access to healthcare in the United States. Medicaid eligibility Medicaid provides health coverage to certain low-income individuals, families, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Each state has its own Medicaid eligibility criteria in accordance with federal guidelines. As a result, Medicaid eligibility and benefits differ widely from state to state. Medicaid expansion provision under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows states to provide coverage for low-income adults by expanding eligibility for Medicaid to 138 percent of the federal poverty line (FPL). Medicaid coverage gap Uninsured individuals who live in states that have chosen not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are referred to as being in the Medicaid coverage gap. As of January 2021, 12 states have not adopted the Medicaid expansion provision under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). More than two million uninsured adults fall into this coverage gap, and among them, more than 60 percent are people of color.
This public dataset was created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The data summarize counts of enrollees who are dually-eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid program, including those in Medicare Savings Programs. “Duals” represent 20 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries, yet they account for 34 percent of all spending by the program, according to the Commonwealth Fund . As a representation of this high-needs, high-cost population, these data offer a view of regions ripe for more intensive care coordination that can address complex social and clinical needs. In addition to the high cost savings opportunity to deliver upstream clinical interventions, this population represents the county-by-county volume of patients who are eligible for both state level (Medicaid) and federal level (Medicare) reimbursements and potential funding streams to address unmet social needs across various programs, waivers, and other projects. The dataset includes eligibility type and enrollment by quarter, at both the state and county level. These data represent monthly snapshots submitted by states to the CMS, which are inherently lower than ever-enrolled counts (which include persons enrolled at any time during a calendar year.) For more information on dually eligible beneficiaries
You can use the BigQuery Python client library to query tables in this dataset in Kernels. Note that methods available in Kernels are limited to querying data. Tables are at bigquery-public-data.sdoh_cms_dual_eligible_enrollment.
In what counties in Michigan has the number of dual-eligible individuals increased the most from 2015 to 2018? Find the counties in Michigan which have experienced the largest increase of dual enrollment households
duals_Jan_2015 AS (
SELECT Public_Total AS duals_2015, County_Name, FIPS
FROM bigquery-public-data.sdoh_cms_dual_eligible_enrollment.dual_eligible_enrollment_by_county_and_program
WHERE State_Abbr = "MI" AND Date = '2015-12-01'
),
duals_increase AS ( SELECT d18.FIPS, d18.County_Name, d15.duals_2015, d18.duals_2018, (d18.duals_2018 - d15.duals_2015) AS total_duals_diff FROM duals_Jan_2018 d18 JOIN duals_Jan_2015 d15 ON d18.FIPS = d15.FIPS )
SELECT * FROM duals_increase WHERE total_duals_diff IS NOT NULL ORDER BY total_duals_diff DESC
Metrics from individual Marketplaces during the current reporting period. The report includes data for the states using HealthCare.gov. As of August 2024, CMS is no longer releasing the “HealthCare.gov” metrics. Historical data between July 2023-July 2024 will remain available. The “HealthCare.gov Transitions” metrics, which are the CAA, 2023 required metrics, will continue to be released. Sources: HealthCare.gov application and policy data through May 5, 2024, and T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) through March 2024 (TAF version 7.1 with T-MSIS enrollment through the end of March 2024). Data include consumers in HealthCare.gov states where the first unwinding renewal cohort is due on or after the end of reporting month (state identification based on HealthCare.gov policy and application data). State data start being reported in the month when the state's first unwinding renewal cohort is due. April data include Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. May data include the previous states and the following new states: Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. June data include the previous states and the following new states: Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. July data include the previous states and Oregon. All HealthCare.gov states are included in this version of the report. Notes: This table includes Marketplace consumers who: 1) submitted a HealthCare.gov application on or after the start of each state’s first reporting month; and 2) who can be linked to an enrollment record in TAF that shows Medicaid or CHIP enrollment between March 2023 and the latest reporting month. Cumulative counts show the number of unique consumers from the included population who had a Marketplace application submitted or a HealthCare.gov Marketplace policy on or after the start of each state’s first reporting month through the latest reporting month. Net counts show the difference between the cumulative counts through a given reporting month and previous reporting months. The data used to produce the metrics are organized by week. Reporting months start on the first Monday of the month and end on the first Sunday of the next month when the last day of the reporting month is not a Sunday. For example, the April 2023 reporting period extends from Monday, April 3 through Sunday, April 30. Data are preliminary and will be restated over time to reflect consumers most recent HealthCare.gov status. Data may change as states resubmit T-MSIS data or data quality issues are identified. Data do not represent Marketplace consumers who had a confirmed Medicaid/CHIP loss. Future reporting will look at coverage transitions for people who lost Medicaid/CHIP. See the data and methodology documentation for a full description of the data sources, measure definitions, and general data limitations. Data notes: Virginia operated a Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE) on the HealthCare.gov platform during 2023. In 2024, the state started operating a State Based Marketplace (SBM) platform. This table only includes data on 2023 applications and policies obtained through the HealthCare.gov Marketplace. Due to limited Marketplace activity on the HealthCare.gov platform in December 2023, data from December 2023 onward are excluded. The cumulative count and percentage for Virginia and the HealthCare.gov total reflect Virginia data from April 2023 through November 2023. The report may include negative 'net counts,' which reflect that there were cumulatively fewer counts from one month to the next. Wyoming has negative ‘net counts’ for most of its metrics in March 2024, including 'Marketplace Consumers with Previous M
This data set includes monthly counts and percentages of Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries, by state, who received at least one service for each of the following conditions: acute bronchitis, acute respiratory distress, bronchitis not other specified (NOS), COVID-19 (based on the presence of diagnosis code U07.1), influenza, lower or acute respiratory infection, pneumonia, respiratory infection NOS, and suspected COVID-19 (based on the presence of diagnosis code B97.29).
These metrics are based on data in the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF). Some states have serious data quality issues for one or more months, making the data unusable for calculating COVID-related conditions measures. To assess data quality, analysts adapted measures featured in the DQ Atlas. Data for a state and month are considered unusable if at least one of the following topics meets the DQ Atlas threshold for unusable: Total Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment, Claims Volume - IP, Claims Volume - OT, Claims Volume - IP, Diagnosis Code - IP, Diagnosis Code - OT, Procedure Codes - OT Professional. Please refer to the DQ Atlas at http://medicaid.gov/dq-atlas for more information about data quality assessment methods. Cells with a value of “DQ” indicate that data were suppressed due to unusable data.
Some cells have a value of “DS”. This indicates that data were suppressed for confidentiality reasons because the group included fewer than 11 beneficiaries.
Over ** million Americans were estimated to be enrolled in the Medicaid program as of 2023. That is a significant increase from around ** million ten years earlier. Medicaid is basically a joint federal and state health program that provides medical coverage to low-income individuals and families. Currently, Medicaid is responsible for ** percent of the nation’s health care bill, making it the third-largest payer behind private insurances and Medicare. From the beginning to ObamacareMedicaid was implemented in 1965 and since then has become the largest source of medical services for Americans with low income and limited resources. The program has become particularly prominent since the introduction of President Obama’s health reform – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - in 2010. Medicaid was largely impacted by this reform, for states now had the opportunity to expand Medicaid eligibility to larger parts of the uninsured population. Thus, the percentage of uninsured in the United States decreased from over ** percent in 2010 to *** percent in 2022. Who is enrolled in Medicaid?Medicaid enrollment is divided mainly into four groups of beneficiaries: children, adults under 65 years of age, seniors aged 65 years or older, and disabled people. Children are the largest group, with a share of approximately ** percent of enrollees. However, their share of Medicaid expenditures is relatively small, with around ** percent. Compared to that, disabled people, accounting for **** percent of total enrollment, were responsible for **** percent of total expenditures. Around half of total Medicaid spending goes to managed care and health plans.
In 2023, 25 million people in the United States had no health insurance. The share of Americans without health insurance saw a steady increase from 2015 to 2019 before starting to decline in 2020 to 2023. Factors like the implementation of Medicaid expansion in additional states and growth in private health insurance coverage led to the decline in uninsured population, despite the economic challenges due to the pandemic in 2020. Positive impact of Affordable Care Act In the U.S. there are public and private forms of health insurance, as well as social welfare programs such as Medicaid and programs just for veterans such as CHAMPVA. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010, which dramatically reduced the share of uninsured Americans, though there’s still room for improvement. In spite of its success in providing more Americans with health insurance, ACA has had an almost equal number of proponents and opponents since its introduction, though the share of Americans in favor of it has risen since mid-2017 to the majority. Persistent disparity among ethnic groups The share of uninsured people is higher in certain demographic groups. For instance, Hispanics continue to be the ethnic group with the highest rate of uninsured people, even after ACA. Meanwhile the share of uninsured White and Asian people is lower than the national average.
California has more Medicaid and CHIP enrollees than any other state in the United States. As of April 2023, approximately ** million Americans were enrolled in the Medicaid health insurance programs in California, which accounted for approximately ** percent of the total number of Medicaid enrollees nationwide (**** million). Blow to Medicaid expansion plans California is one of many states that has expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to encourage more low-income adults to sign up for health coverage. One of the original aims of the ACA was to limit some of the variations in state Medicaid programs, but the Supreme Court ruled that the expansion should be optional. Governors of the states that did not expand said they were concerned about long-term costs. California is the leading state for Medicaid expenditure, spending approximately **** billion U.S. dollars in FY2020. Health coverage for children The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was created as a complement to Medicaid, expanding the reach of government-funded health coverage to more children in low-income families. As of May 2021, over **** million children were enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP programs in California, more than any other state. As of January 2021, the median Medicaid/CHIP eligibility level for children was *** percent of the federal poverty level.