Medicaid covers numerous recipients, like uninsured disabled individuals, expectant mothers, and temporarily unemployed workers. Lately, new legislation has lowered the nation?s uninsured rate to under 9-percent, representing the highest coverage rate in U.S. history. Today, Medicaid provides coverage for over 70-million American citizens. As of 2014, the program compensated hospitals for almost 50-percent of all medical expenses. Medicaid has completed its 50th birthday in 2015 and celebrated it by posting program highlights, research findings, and the voices of our beneficiaries in 50 days of postings.