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UK
/mˈɛdɪkˌeɪd/
]
[ US /ˈmɛdəˌkeɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛdəˌkeɪd/ ]
NOUN
- health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program
How To Use Medicaid In A Sentence
- After several years of investigations, the Boys Ranch was indicted on criminal Medicaid fraud and grand theft charges last April.
- The main drivers of this long-term fiscal gap are, in order, the spending growth associated with Medicare and Medicaid, the revenue losses from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and increases in Social Security costs ... Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- The inequity is in MediCARE payments; not Medicaid. You Haven’t Seen Gov. Gregoire Act This Gubernatorial Since Her Days as AG. « PubliCola
- And even while operating under that constraint, Clinton proposed to expand Medicaid coverage to some 5 million uninsured children.
- Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients.
- New York Medicaid costs have ballooned by $13 billion since Albany passed a health-care ‘reform’ act four years ago, supposedly to restrain spending.
- According to the social worker's notes, the hospital anticipated that the patient would need long-term ventilator care and that, as a legal immigrant with less than five years in this country, he would not qualify for Arizona's Medicaid coverage. T r u t h o u t
- Using a Medicaid waiver that pays for caregivers in the home in lieu of nursing-home care, the Dunhams had received 25 hours of weekly assistance.
- However, Lockett had nothing to do with the Boys Ranch, which was being investigated for Medicaid fraud.
- Reading through the White House's text of "An Economy Built to Last," any half-awake citizen will notice the words that fail to appear: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, entitlements and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Obama's Maddening, Winning Speech