Students attending the second annual Ohio University Health Scholars Research Symposium gained a deeper understanding of Medicaid and how they, as medical and health professions students, can make a difference in the lives of those who rely on Medicaid to insure their health care.
Keynote speaker Gilbert Liu, M.D. told attendees he would like to attract as many medical and health professions students as he can into the Medicaid space. Liu contrasted the goals of Medicaid when it was established and how it operates today. He told attendees that the program was developed to meet a national need and was supposed to be based on well-tried insurance principles, but for many reasons has not been realized as it was originally intended.