Medicaid (& Money) Top The News

Discussion of financing and revenue in health care can't escape a discussion of Medicaid. For good reason, Medicaid covers 20% of the U.S. population and is 17% of total U.S. health care spending. And this morning, Medicaid was all the news. My inbox was flooded with updates like, Health Care Overhaul Collapses As Two Republican Senators Defect and Providers Spared $800 Billion In Medicaid Funding Withdrawal, But Unsure Of What Comes Next.

And, as I looked at the “most read” news stories so far this year, the list was also dominated by Medicaid: changes in Medicaid funding . . .