The number of Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in managed care plans rose by one million Americans this year to nearly 55 million, according to a new report from consulting firm PwC.
The report comes after the expansion of Medicaid health benefits under the Affordable Care Act survived several attempts by the Republican-led Congress and the Donald Trump White House to take away health coverage from poor people. “2017 marked the year that Medicaid moved to the forefront of the national conversation, as perception – and politics – caught up with the reality that no other social welfare program touches more Americans,” PwC’s Ari Gottlieb, the report’s author wrote in the 17-page analysis released at this week’s Medicaid Health Plans of America annual meeting.
