Our Rick Schmitt has a piece looking at one of the potential winners from the federal health care reform efforts: Single, childless adults. From his story for Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer:
While Medicaid is the main government health insurance plan for the poor, the joint state-federal program has excluded Matthews and millions of other adults with no dependent children since the 1960s. Medicaid has been limited mainly to children in poor families, the elderly, pregnant women and the disabled.
Some states have tried to fill the gap, but childless adults now comprise a majority of uninsured Americans. The lowest-income members of the group would be among the big beneficiaries of the Democratic health insurance overhaul plans in Washington.
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