Medicaid is a broadly popular program that provides medical coverage to low-income Americans through a combination of state and federal funding. More than 60 percent of Americans either know someone who has benefited from Medicaid or have been enrolled themselves, according to health policy think tank KFF. So any talk of altering the program usually meets strong opposition.
Yet few seem to know how the system works, what it costs, or the level of unnecessary spending hidden within its $880 billion annual budget.
