Medicaid and the States: The Post-COVID Era

Episode Summary
On this episode, four experts on Medicaid discuss how the program is financed, how states are handling some new challenges in the post-pandemic world and changes the new federal administration may bring.

Episode Notes
Medicaid is a program jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It provides health care coverage to nearly 80 million people, primarily those with low incomes, people who are living with disabilities or are in long-term care.

On this episode we discussed the nuts and bolts of how Medicaid is financed and how states are handling some new challenges in the post-pandemic world. The pandemic affected both who Medicaid covered and the share paid by the federal and state governments.