Medicaid - Few Get Most Benefits
As with health care expenditures generally, a relatively
small percentage of Medicaid enrollees account from
over half of the program`s expenditures.
According to Kaiser Commission in 2004 over $151
billion was spent on 5% of Medicaid`s enrollees or
less than 3 million people
Just over $110 billion was spent on the remain 54 million
people.
The average expenditure for this group was
about $2,000. By contrast, the program spent over
$50,000 per year on the top 5%.
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