Health Care Insider: Medicaid Turns 50—Has it Changed For Better or For Worse?

Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 6 a.m.

President Lindon B. Johnson signed Medicaid into law in 1965, providing government-subsidized health care to those who can’t afford it. How has it changed since then? Family physician Dr. Kyle Bradford Jones gives a quick history lesson in how Medicaid has provided care for poor individuals and families in the past and more recently, including an ongoing debate some states are having about expanding Medicaid.