RT Journal
A1 Patrick SW, Davis MM
T1 REformulating the federal match as a key to the sustainability of medicaid
JF JAMA Pediatrics
JO JAMA Pediatrics
YR 2013
FD March 1
VO 167
IS 3
SP 218
OP 220
DO 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.1075
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.1075
AB 
The recent so-called “great recession” highlighted both the importance of Medicaid to our nation's vulnerable populations and the financial burden of Medicaid on state governments. For the more than 51 million individuals with Medicaid coverage (among them, 26 million children), the program makes access to health care services affordable.1 However, the ever-increasing costs of health care and recent rapid enrollment growth in Medicaid for children, disabled adults, and elderly adults1 make Medicaid progressively unaffordable and fiscally unsustainable for states that must balance their annual budgets.