So here's a shocker: Children on Medicaid receive very good care — in many respects better than those on private insurance. That's the conclusion of a survey of health data from 2003 to 2012 for 80,655 children, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins. The children were in families earning between 100% and 300% of the federal poverty level — between $20,090 and $60,270 for a family of three in 2015.
What this tells us, says healthcare policy expert Harold Pollack, is that "Medicaid gets a really bad rap." There's no dispute that it could be improved — but so could every other form of health insurance in America.
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