5 Things You Need To Know About Medicaid

One of the topics in Tuesday’s healthcare debate between Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was Medicaid. Ezra Klein writes in Vox that a recent poll showed that only 47 percent of Republicans knew that the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare would vanish if the law is the repealed (although at least one of the Republican replacement plans keep the Medicaid spending levels in place).

Here are five things you need to know about Medicaid.