42% of Medicaid Enrollees Have Disabilities

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News In federal fiscal year 2007, 42.4% of the approximately 58.1 million Medicaid enrollees under the age of 65 in the United States were eligible for the program due to a qualifying disability. Children accounted for 20.5% of the remaining enrollees, adults were 12.4%, and 24.7% were people over the age of 65. These are the findings of a report, titled “Medicaid Spending for FY 2007 by Enrollment Group,” by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Additional findings from a second related report by KFF, titled “Total Medicaid . . .