
Budget Basics: Medicaid
This budget explainer describes what Medicaid is, how it is financed, and who benefits from it.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-medicaid
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This budget explainer describes what Medicaid is, how it is financed, and who benefits from it.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-medicaid
Medicaid provides health insurance to low-income Americans. Children make up nearly half of the program’s enrollment, but most spending is directed towards the elderly and disabled.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0093_medicaid_demographics
Medicaid finances about one-third of all home health and nursing home care spending in the United States.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0095_medicaid_home_health
Medicare covers more than 40 percent of the nation's home health care bills and more than 20 percent of most other health services.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0092_medicare_share_costs
Hospital expenses are the largest category of Medicare spending, but their share has fallen over time.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0089_composition_medicare_payments
On average, Medicare benefits far exceed taxes over an individual’s lifetime.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0197_Medicare_lifetime_benefits
The PGPF chart pack illustrates that budget-making involves many competing priorities, limited resources, and complex issues.
Lawmakers have enacted a total of 120 continuing resolutions over the past 24 fiscal years.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0228_continuing_resolutions
These infographics portray headline results from each national survey that can help inform policymakers during and after this crisis.
https://www.pgpf.org/2020-polls-reveal-voter-sentiment-on-economic-and-fiscal-policy-options
Historically, debt and deficits rose with wars and economic downturns. Today, they rise from factors such as growing healthcare costs and an aging population.