Medicaid was a relatively modest program with about 4 million enrollees and a budget of about $1 billion to be a safety net for those who had “any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death [1].” It was intended to be administered by the states, not the federal government.
Now it has more than 70 million [2] enrollees and cost $545 billion.
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