July 28, 2015
By Troy Wilde,
PHOENIX– According to a study done by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families for the 5oth anniversary of Medicaid, adults who benefited from Medicaid as children are more likely to have better health, education, and achieve greater financial success. The report showed that children benefiting from Medicaid were less likely to take trips to the emergency room, less likely to be hospitalized, and more likely to have low blood pressure.
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Report co-author Joan Alker, executive director with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, says research on today’s adults who were Medicaid recipients as children finds they’ve grown up to have higher incomes. That means they pay more taxes and have been less reliant on societal safety-net programs.
“The value of these studies is to actually look at the numbers,” she says. “What all of these studies show is that Medicaid is providing an incredibly valuable service to kids, and that the taxpayers are getting a great return on their investment.”
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