Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | Medicaid Is Broken—Let the States Fix It
Medicaid, America's safety-net program for more than 62 million low-income uninsured Americans, is broken. It's broken at the state level, where program costs are swamping state budgets. It's broken for federal taxpayers, as Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse drain tens of billions of dollars from federal coffers every year. And, most important, it's broken for the millions of families who can't find doctors willing to accept Medicaid's rock-bottom reimbursements.
