Medicaid at 50: The Value of Covering Ohio Kids

Public News Service

July 28, 2015

By Mary Kuhlamn,

COLUMBUS, OH.– About 46 percent, or over one million, of Ohio children receive health care benefits from the Medicaid program, which turns 50 this year. A new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families highlights the lifetime values of the program.

Report co-author Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, says the study compiles research gathered over the last several years on the lives of individuals who received Medicaid as children in the 1980s and 90s.

“What’s so interesting about this new research is it’s showing that when these kids grow up, there are so many ways Medicaid has benefited them,” says Alker. “Their health is better, their educational success is better and their economic outcomes are improved.”

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