July 30, 2015
By Mary Kuhlman,
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.– A new report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families for Medicaid’s 50th birthday analyzes the lifelong benefits the program has provide to its Indiana’s most vulnerable children. According to the Georgetown report, adults who have benefited from Medicaid not only grow up healthier, but also achieve greater academic and financial success.
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The study compiles other research done in the past few years, on the lives of people who received Medicaid as children in the 1980s and 1990s. The executive director of the Georgetown Center, Joan Alker, says there’s a positive economic impact.
“Some studies are now finding that children who received Medicaid actually pay more taxes as adults and use fewer government subsidies,” says Alker. “So essentially, the government is getting a great return on investment by providing kids with Medicaid.” Alker adds the program has played a vital role in reducing the uninsured rate for children, dropping to about seven percent in 2013, from 12 percent in 1987.
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