Medicaid spending needs some surgery

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Nearly one million low-income Missourians qualify for the taxpayer-funded Medicaid health care program. Now if you think about it, that number is amazing in itself. But the problem - as I see it - with Medicaid is that there is no incentive for recipients to change lifestyle behavior in an attempt to improve their health because every penny of their medical coverage is being paid by someone else.

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