[ckinnan]

Medicaid covers around 80 million people, at roughly $7,000 a year per recipient, which is double what the UK spends per patient.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-of...

[maxerickson]

The breakdown of the per recipient spending is useful:

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spendi...

Much of the spending is on the elderly and disabled (which both group tend to have above average medical needs).