act of non-transfer programs such as Medica=e, Medicaid and Job Corps on poverty is harder to measure, but what indication= there are are promising. Amy Finkelstein and Robin McKnight have found that Medicare significantly reduced out-of-pocket medical expenditures for senio=s, which increased their real incomes

ed-based benefit policies created incentives to abuse the Medicaid reimbursement system. Note: 1) for more information, please see Jeffrey Brown and Amy Finkelstein, “The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market,” 2006. *Medicaid enrollment was 4MM (population