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Medicaid  

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  • Medicaid is the principal public health insurance program for the poor in the United States. Jointly funded by the federal and state governments and administered by the states, Medicaid is by far the largest means-tested, safety-net program in the United States when measured by both expenditures and the number of beneficiaries. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Medicaid]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Medicaid

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