Disabled individuals under 65 years old account for 15% of Medicaid recipients but half of all Medicaid spending …. Despite their large cost, few studies have investigated the effects of Medicaid expansions for disabled individuals on … insurance coverage and crowd-out of private insurance. Using an eligibility expansion that allowed states to provide Medicaid to …

a higher asset threshold for Medicaid eligibility for LTC coverage. We find that the program generates few new purchases …

Medicaid provides health insurance for 54 million Americans. Using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure … (which subtracts out-of-pocket medical expenses from family resources), we estimated the impact of eliminating Medicaid. In … our counterfactual, Medicaid beneficiaries would become uninsured or gain other insurance. Counterfactual medical …