Medicaid is a government programme that also provides health insurance to the elderly who have few assets and either low income or catastrophic health care expenses. We ask how the Medicaid rules map into the reality of Medicaid recipiency, and we ask what other observable characteristics are important to determine who ends up on Medicaid.
Chapter 3 from the book, 'Longer-term Consequences of the Great Recession on the Lives of Europeans', edited by Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber and published by Oxford University Press in May 2014.
