Ari Ne'eman, Columnist

Let Higher-Income Americans Buy In to Medicaid

The program was more widely admired than anyone expected. Its future is the future of U.S. health policy.

July 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM UTC

Ari Ne’eman is a doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard and a visiting scholar at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis.

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The day after the 2016 election, health-policy advocates had many fears, but one stood above them all: the end of Medicaid.

For decades, the Republican Party has pushed to end the federal government’s commitment to matching state investments in Medicaid. Since the program primarily serves low-income Americans, it has long been perceived as politically far easier to slash than the other social-insurance programs, Medicare and Social Security.