July 2015 | Natassia M. Rozario, Joel C. Cantor, Jeffrey Brenner | Opinion: Half a Century After Its Inception, What Can Medicaid Teach Us?
Today, we honor an innovator. She has transformed the American healthcare delivery system in many states, especially for our most vulnerable citizens. She has mitigated healthcare disparities and promoted gender equality. In part, because of her, we are coming to embrace a new idea that all Americans are entitled to basic health insurance. She has saved and improved millions of lives. She, of course, is Medicaid. And today she turns 50.