July 28, 2015
By Deborah Courson Smith,
ANNAPOLIS, MD.– A new report for Medicaid’s 50th birthday shows that children are covered by Medicaid enjoy long lasting health and well-being benefits. About half of Maryland residents who receive Medicaid are children. The study shows that children who receive Medicaid benefits are more likely to stay in school and generate higher incomes as adults, and less likely to have high blood pressure and emergency health issues in adulthood.
Report co-author Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, calls it interesting data. “It’s showing that when these kids grow up, there are so many ways in which Medicaid has benefited them,” she says. “Their health is better, their educational success is better and their economic outcomes are improved.”
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